A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Monday north-northwest of Nea Styra, a coastal town on the Greek island of Evia, the U.S.

Unlike Japan or Indonesia, Malaysia sits on the relatively stable Sunda Plate, making it less prone to large, destructive ...

Sometimes, the US would even lend out one of its highly specialized search and rescue task forces to respond to a disaster overseas, as it did to Haiti, Turkey, Peru, the Bahamas, Nepal, and Japan ...

A new nationwide survey highlights America's deepest weather fears, and the results show striking gaps between the threats people worry about and how prepared they actually feel to face them. The poll ...

Resilience is a term often discussed in the face of a natural disaster such as a major earthquake, but the attributes of ...

Discover some of the deadliest earthquakes on Earth that reshaped the world, caused tsunamis, and left lasting impacts on ...

The death toll following the recent earthquake in Afghanistan continues to rise. Taliban-led health authorities now say at ...

A doctor in Afghanistan's earthquake zone tells CBS News the "destruction is overwhelming," with people still trapped under ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek issued an executive order on Monday to ensure new state buildings larger than 10,000 square feet are ...

We have ourselves to blame for those disasters. But natural disasters — earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, floods, fires and droughts — seem to fall into the category of bad luck.

Delays in cleanup and logistics are one thing; an outright inability to help desperate people for months would signal a ...

The world's deadliest natural disasters span more than 2,500 years of human history and include earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones.