A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hits Liuzhou, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on May 18, 2026. Photo: CCTV News.

Thirty years have passed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake devastated Kobe and wide areas around the port city.

Following major disasters, reconstruction drives massive demand for cement, sand, timber, and steel, often equivalent to 10 ...

In February 2023, devastating earthquakes struck southeastern Turkey and northwest Syria, killing more than 50,000 people. In the aftermath, attention quickly shifted from the scale of the disaster to ...

(FOX40.COM) — Governor Gavin Newsom is responding to reduce federal aid after Californians received a false earthquake alert on Dec. 4, arguing that the state and the nation are less prepared for ...

It’s probably no coincidence a report to have been released last Tuesday about what California needs to do to prepare for the next great earthquake, fires and floods is coming the same month of the ...

A new program that teaches how to prepare for natural disasters in “easy Japanese” has been created for foreign residents, many of whom are inexperienced in those disasters.

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was to make disaster-risk reduction part of everyday thinking worldwide. Today ...