'Late that night, in absolute darkness, it hit, with the far shrieking screams, the queer rumbling of a vast and irresistible freight train,' Marjory Stoneman Douglas wrote of the storm.

People in southern Japan are bracing for a typhoon. Saudel is expected to approach the Okinawa and Amami regions, with weather officials warning of violent winds through Wednesday.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 has shaken Kumamoto on Japan’s Kyushu island. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami advisory for the Ariake and Yatsushiro Seas but it was lifted withi...

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes have hammered Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. The U.S.

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A 1,578-foot tsunami in Alaska's Tracy Arm Fjord was the second largest ever recorded, driven by climate change.