For each type of natural disaster, the likelihood of risk is assigned either as very low, low, moderate, high, or very high. These are the cities with the most dangerous natural disasters.

Videos and photos showed an oily inferno of burning ... and toxic spill on Feb. 3 isn't a full-scale environmental disaster such as Love Canal or the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Many types of natural disasters are causing greater ... Two main factors have saved lives even among increasingly dangerous disasters and growing populations: better forecasting and a greater ...

That's a message relief organizations very much want ... live if there's a disaster? Who's really well-connected on their blocks?" Juanita Rilling's album of disaster images shows shot after ...

Every region in America faces its own dangers (those three are just from August), but when you account for all kinds of natural disasters ... other event types since 1996. Most Dangerous Counties ...

Almost 700 rescues had been carried out in New South Wales by Friday morning as record-breaking rainfall pounds the state.

(Jack Dempsey/AP) When disasters strike, the flood of images on TV and social media can ... We could look at the types of disaster exposure, and whether any preexisting characteristics could ...