The interior designer and his longtime partner, acclaimed photographer, Fernando Bengoechea, were vacationing together in Sri ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved disaster loans for Honolulu residents and businesses following last month's tsunami.

If your home was destroyed by a sudden disaster that you couldn't control, you would hope that at the very least, your insurance would cover your losses. However, disaster risk financing systems are ...

A massive tsunami generated by a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck Japan's coast within 30 minutes. Waves as high as 130 feet spilled over seawalls. Within days, three nuclear reactors were disabled.

The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, ...

Oregon state Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, has been introducing legislation to modernize the state’s emergency preparedness and response processes for years. He called the state’s tsunami warnings last ...

There’s a reason filmmakers keep coming back to giant walls of water: they’re both beautiful and horrifying. A tsunami on screen can feel like nature itself has become the villain—unstoppable, ...

This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in this tragic event, it is also a moment to reflect on what ...

The process of tsunami parametric insurance. An insurance payout is triggered when a tsunami index (e.g., wave height) meets the predefined criteria. If your home was destroyed by a sudden disaster ...