Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to floods ...

Scores of people have been killed after a powerful quake sparked a tsunami with waves as high as 1.5 metres (five feet) that smashed into the Indonesian city of Palu. Harrowing video showed waves of ...

An avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada mountains killed at least eight skiers, making it the deadliest such disaster in the U.S. in 45 years.

In 1985 the Nevado del Ruiz volcano triggered a mudslide that wiped out the town of Armero, Colombia in one of the 20th century’s worst natural... Searching for Survivors 40 Years After One of Latin ...

Nature's immense and overwhelming beauty is balanced only by its immense and overwhelming destruction, and the numerous natural disasters of this millennium are proof of that. With our increased ...

TASS FACTBOX. TASS has summarized the worst natural disasters of 2025 that caused significant fatalities and substantial material damage. On March 28, Myanmar was hit by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, ...

Tom Robinson receives funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and the Natural Hazards Commission. The recent deaths of eight people in two New Zealand landslides has left the ...