Residents across Northern California’s coast were told to quickly evacuate Thursday morning and urged to seek higher ground after a magnitude 7 earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County prompted a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Preparing for natural disasters is what many of us do in the Bay Area. Now, state geologists say a once-in-a-lifetime tsunami could inundate more of the Bay Area than first ...

People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of modern history's worst ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of ...

"It's hard [for the younger generation] to understand," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy Soffie Modin, who was trapped for hours inside a home after ...

A single earthquake in Seattle could cause a catastrophic situation for the northwest corner of the state, a new report from Washington's Department of Natural Resources found. The study was focused ...

Eight years ago, Erik Thorsen — CEO of Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Ore. — received a warning that no hospital administrator wants to hear: A big earthquake could cause his hospital's ...

When 4-foot tsunami waves crashed into the Crescent City Harbor in rural Northern California last week, the dock nearest the harbor’s entrance — which was designed to absorb the brunt of the surge ...

Rachel Hearson learned "I can be strong in a situation like this, and I can be there for other people if I'm needed," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue National Geographic/Charlie Laing/Alec Davy ...

Twenty years ago, Petra Nemcova was waking up the morning after Christmas and preparing to leave her vacation in Thailand when disaster struck. In 2004, Nemcova was 25 years old and vacationing with ...