natural disaster

U.S

Tsunami and destruction fears as threat of 'inevitable' earthquake looms over Washington

Washington is at a high risk of experiencing devastating earthquakes, with the potential for a tsunami, warns an expert. Harold Tobin, Director of...

World

'We didn't know the meaning of the word "tsunami" until Boxing Day 2004'

Twenty years on from the Boxing Day tsunami, a Red Cross director has remembered how the disaster sent shockwaves across Sri Lanka. Dr...

World

The world's 'deadliest day' when over 800,000 people died – not because of a war

A catastrophic event some 500 years ago is believed to have been the most deadly day in human history – but it wasn’t...