It’s a daunting challenge with the highest possible stakes should an offshore earthquake unleash a wall of incoming seawater.

Sullivan County officials, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) and community members met on Wednesday to discuss the county’s updated five-year ...

Michael Lamphere, East Regional Planner for TEMA, led the meeting, which focused on updating the county’s hazard mitigation ...

Laramie City Council unanimously awarded a $2 million construction to Laramie-based Big Hunhks Excavation during a recent ...

One of the core components of this initiative is establishing disaster-resilient infrastructure standards. Future industrial ...

Japan's government has set goals for reducing the estimated death toll and structural damage from an anticipated massive earthquake occurring in the Nankai Trough off the country's Pacific coast.

Kalispell City Council held a quick work session Monday night to discuss potentially adopting the Western Montana Regional ...

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will incorporate the 3Ms — mapping, monitoring, and mitigation — into its ...

As built-up areas encroach on natural ones, we need new strategies for dealing with the impact of wildfires on buildings and ...

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

Tsunamis pose a risk to the entirety of the California coast. But should a major one strike, how bad could it be?

The New Madrid seismic zone lies in the Mississippi Valley and passes through many states, including Missouri.