PUYALLUP, Wash. — Five school districts and several Pierce County cities and towns participated in what the city of Puyallup called the biggest lahar drill in the country Friday. Students from the ...

LEGAZPI CITY (PIA) — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. placed Albay under red alert on Wednesday as the province prepares for Tropical Storm Hagupit, which is expected to enter the Philippine ...

On December 23, 1953, New Zealand faced one of its deadliest rail tragedies, known as the Tangiwai Disaster. A passenger train traveling from Wellington to Auckland plunged into the Whangaehu River ...

Communities in the Pacific Northwest are no strangers to volcanoes, with many of the region’s towns and cities overshadowed by seismically active peaks. Yet while eruptions usually give locals time to ...

In June 2024, early career geologist Gustavo Béjar López traveled to Guatemala for a project aimed at using artificial intelligence to automatically detect and potentially forecast deadly mudslides ...

Editor's note: The attached video originally aired in May 2019. Would you know what to do if Mount Rainier were to erupt? Emergency management officials want to find out. Officials with the Washington ...

LEGAZPI CITY—Local government and disaster response officials in Albay have stepped up precautions against possible lahar flows as Tropical Storm “Ada” threatens to bring heavy rains to the province.

The Puyallup River valley can expect monthly chimes in lieu of blaring sirens going forward. Pierce County has upgraded the lahar siren system to include blue strobe lights, a voice message and a few ...

A lahar is a mud flow that comes off of a volcano. Think of the pictures from Mount St. Helens erupting in 1980 with what looked like rivers of concrete flowing rapidly downstream. Pierce County, Wash ...