Santorini, the popular Greek holiday island, is taking emergency measures in response to intense seismic activity ...

Whenever Sema Genc enters a room, the first place she looks is the ceiling: would it hold up in an earthquake, or would she ...

And today, America’s second-largest city is facing its own natural disaster, and a set of choices for how to rebuild.There ...

While earthquakes have caused disasters since early California, destruction from wildfires is a modern phenomenon ...

Since the fires, a gradual hollowing out, and even abandonment, of Los Angeles has already begun. With the threat of earthquakes, fires and volcanic eruptions, Jonathan Margolis talks to the experts w ...

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

The Palisades and Eaton fires destroyed or damaged more than 8,500 homes in an already tight housing market. Experts said the ...

California's Fair Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, may be unable to pay billions in claims arising from the Los Angeles fires and may require a bailout that could ultimately be paid by ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas ... injured about 43,800 people and damaged or destroyed roughly 640,000 homes. As many as 310,000 people sought refuge in emergency shelters after the ...

KOBE (Kyodo) -- The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that killed over 6,400 people, with many hoping to keep alive ...