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The magnitude 4.4 quake — centered near Highland Park on Monday — came with an early warning from California’s quake alert system. It was not immediately clear how many people got the alert. But it is ...

The system wasn't working when a tsunami struck Sunday, killing hundreds. Tsunamis have devastated the shorelines of Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries before, but the subsequent deaths and ...

Smartphone apps sent simultaneous alerts to millions of Californians on Tuesday evening, warning them to brace for incoming shaking from a Kern County earthquake. (Robert de Groot / U.S. Geological ...

MyShake warns of incoming earthquakes, sometimes seconds before shaking starts. The alert system was already available on iPhones, iPads and Android phones. UC Berkeley is also working to make MyShake ...

For communities and nations across Asia and the Pacific, climate-related disasters are no longer distant threats – they are daily realities. Steppe wildfires in Mongolia, floods in Cambodia, lightning ...

Nearly 40,000 people have signed a petition "urgently" calling for officials to create an early warning siren system for the flood-ravaged Texas hill country. The Change.org petition, created by ...

Flash floods in Texas Hill Country killed at least 130 people earlier this month, while New Mexico, New York, and New Jersey experienced flooded transit systems, blocked roads, and even swept away ...