Natural Disasters

The Placer County sheriff's office and the Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue team responded to the scene and initially reported several victims being unaccounted for. 

One island's natural disaster is another couple’s perfect wedding backdrop.

Helicopters have been loaded with boxes of food to drop through the bushland and canyons.

Scientists have discovered a mash-up of two feared disasters — hurricanes and earthquakes — and they're calling them "stormquakes."

The combination of two frightening natural phenomena might bring to mind "Sharknado ," but stormquakes are real and not dangerous. 

A preliminary 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Hollister, California Tuesday afternoon, about 48 miles from Santa Cruz, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. 

An incredible act of kindness by professional rugby players from Canada is being commended in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis. 

TOKYO (AP) — Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan to rescue people stranded in flooded homes Sunday, as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to as high as 33. One woman fell to her death as she was being placed inside a rescue helicopter.

A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan's worst in six decades made landfall and passed over the capital, where streets, nearby beaches and train stations were long deserted.