There's often little warning when a tsunami strikes, but a research team at USF aims to improve the forecasting of these hazardous events for communities that are most at risk.

Oregon fire experts have finalized their redo of state maps of wildfire hazard areas, showing that about 106,000 tax lots are in high-risk spots that could be subject to new building and landscape ...

All mail delivery to tsunami hit Japanese postal code areas of 00 to 09, 30 31 96 98 99 have been suspended; Japan’s postal service has informed the Sri Lanka Department of Post. Therefore avoid ...

But when they stop, experts say hazards remain. Fires are continuing ... Counties are occurring on the urban-wildland interface -- areas where wildland landscapes meet with urban dwellings ...

The system automatically notifies every phone in a geographic area using cell phone towers. This operates more like an Amber Alert and does not require a sign-up process. Local governments ...

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It said the quake was centred at a depth of 30 kilometres. Tsunami advisories have been issued for waves up to one metre high in the Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu, as well as the Kochi Prefecture ...

Residents in some coastal areas were told to evacuate as a precautionary measure. One man was slightly injured in Kyushu after falling down some stairs, NHK TV reported. Trains stopped running in ...

(Kyodo News via AP) TOKYO (AP) — A tsunami advisory was issued for part of southwest Japan after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Monday, but the warnings to stay away from coastal areas were later ...

the hazards that will remain in its wake will be severe, especially due to the urban nature of many of the burn zones, experts told ABC News. The fires burning in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties are ...

They state that repopulation in segments better allows them to get people home as quickly as possible, limiting an overflow of traffic in the area ... there are many hazards that can exist ...

The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has signed a new memorandum of understanding with an area First Nation ... because every First Nation that we sign an MOU with has different perspectives ...