Before the earthquake changed everything, 83-year-old Sueko Naka from Japan's remote Noto Peninsula wished to live out her ...

Lacquerware maker Takaho Shoji hunches over his desk in the disaster-hit city of Wajima in central Japan, applying another ...

Lacquerware maker Takaho Shoji hunches over his desk in the disaster-hit city of Wajima in central Japan, applying another layer of coating to a dark, wooden box.

The most deadly days in the history of warfare killed far fewer than a catastrophic event that unfolded some 500 years ago.

Here is a look at tsunamis. Tsunamis are formed by a displacement of water – a landslide, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or slippage of the boundary between two of the earth’s tectonic plates – slabs ...

Thanks to the GITEWS early warning system developed under the leadership of the GFZ from 2005 to 2008, it is now not only the ...

Vanuatu’s capital is without water after reservoirs were destroyed by a violent magnitude 7.3 earthquake that wrought havoc ...

After a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck Vanuatu on Tuesday, rescuers are tirelessly searching for people ...

More than 230 people were injured, 41,000 forced to evacuate and 16,000 homes blacked out today when Japan's northern island of Hokkaido was rocked by the strongest earthquake to hit anywhere in ...