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 ...

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 ...

After Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, experts were faced with a precarious question: How can we best prepare for when—not if—the next volcanic eruption in the Cascade Range occurs? Triggered by a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

TARLAC CITY, Philippines — What was once buried under ash and lahar from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption has been ...