From 25 foot long ladders to smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, these fire safety tools are essential additions to your emergency preparedness kit.

The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) chief warned a month ago that budget cuts had plunged it into "unprecedented operational challenges" which would hamper its wildfire response.

Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found massive structures deep beneath the ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there is no tsunami threat to Guam or the Northern Marianas from an earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake ...

Dozens are dead and injured after a strong earthquake struck a remote region in China's Tibet on Tuesday morning.

Have you ever thought of giving new buzz to outdated wired alarm systems or saving money while upgrading your home security? The Hornet Nest Alarm Panel, to which hacker [Patrick van Oosterwijck] ...

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ... after the rising water levels tripped the detectors. There was no release of radioactive material ...

Watch: Buildings collapse and landslides after 7.3 magnitude Vanuatu earthquake Rescuers in Vanuatu are racing to find survivors trapped in buildings, a day after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck ...

Ayuni survived the tsunami by chance, staying at her aunt’s house in Banda Aceh instead of her family home in Lampuuk, Aceh ...

engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves — a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as deadly again. On Dec. 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the Indian ...

Tsunami detection buoys are used by the Bureau of Meteorology to monitor sea levels. Credit: Bureau of Meteorology “In places like Aceh, where you had the earthquake immediately offshore and ...