Open with CtrlK — press Esc to close
Walk the waterfront in Kesennuma, a fishing city on Japan's Sanriku coast, and parts of the sea wall have windows in them. After the 2011 tsunami wrecked the port, the city asked residents what the…
A mudslide struck the open-pit sector of Codelco's El Teniente copper mine, in Machalí, in Chile's O'Higgins Region, around 2 p.m. local time Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, Carabineros Lieutenant Fernando…
An international disaster-monitoring service, GDACS, raised its alert for the eruption at Kanlaon Volcano to Orange at 5:58 a.m. UTC on Oct. 12, 2026. The volcano is on Negros Island in the…
The National Weather Service has confirmed six more tornadoes from the storms that crossed the Carolinas and Georgia on Oct. 10-11, 2026, adding the outbreak's longest surveyed track and its first…
Flash flooding swept across Clark County in southern Nevada and Mohave County in northwestern Arizona on Oct. 11, 2026. The flooding triggered a series of swift-water rescues in the Las Vegas valley…
A rockfall collapsed the roof of a cave near Urzulei, in Sardinia's Ogliastra province. The collapse happened early Sunday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2026. It trapped a speleologist about 10 meters below…
Rising water on the Paraná River forced evacuations in four Paraguayan communities this weekend, including 60 families moved out of Ciudad del Este's San Rafael neighborhood. Paraguay's La Nación…
The government of Mexico issued a new Hurricane Watch for the coast from north of El Roblito to Bahia Tempehuaya at 3 p.m. CST Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026 (2100 UTC), as Hurricane Simon, a Category 4 storm…
The National Weather Service confirmed its first tornado intensity rating of the day Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026: EF-1, with top winds of 90 to 100 mph, in Jones County, North Carolina. The agency also…
The southern coast of Panama's Azuero Peninsula has the shape of a place where one slab of ocean floor dives beneath another. The faults that cut across the peninsula itself mostly do something else.…
On April 10, 2023, Shiveluch blew up. The explosive eruption on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula was about VEI 4 on the scale of eruption size, and the largest event at this volcanic center in six…
Two hurricanes were under warning on the morning of Oct. 9, 2026, and the US National Hurricane Center wrote up both in the same forecast cycle. Isaias was over the Gulf and still strengthening,…