The tsunami warning towers in the south have been out of order for several years and those on the verge of collapse dismantled. A senior official of the Disaster Management Centre said that the 24 ...

One of the reopened waterfronts is Haragamaobama beach in Fukushima prefecture, about 40 kilometres north of the crippled Daiichi nuclear plant. Local officials in Fukushima said they hoped the ...

If your home was destroyed by a sudden disaster that you couldn't control, you would hope that at the very least, your insurance would cover your losses. However, disaster risk financing systems are ...

Natural disasters affect many parts of the world, but few countries experience them as frequently and as intensely as ...

Emergency management officials provide scenario, encourage preparedness ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — Residents of this small coastal city in the Pacific Northwest know what to do when there’s a tsunami warning: Flee to higher ground. For those in or near Columbia Memorial, the city’s ...

Oregon state Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, has been introducing legislation to modernize the state’s emergency preparedness and response processes for years. He called the state’s tsunami warnings last ...

When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors of healthy aging. But seven months later, his plans changed when a ...

Addie Guttag knew very little about American Jewish World Service when she donated $10,000 to the organization in the wake of the Asian tsunamis. But three years later, Ms. Guttag, who works as a ...

GENEVA - The UN refugee agency today announced a six-month, $75 million appeal to provide shelter, non-food aid and logistical support for hundreds of thousands of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami ...