Rescuers Race Against Time in Search for Survivors in Japan After Powerful Quakes Leave 73 Dead January 4, 2024 By Hiro Komae, Richard Colombo and Yuri Kageyama SUZU, Japan (AP) — Japanese rescue workers and canine units searched urgently through rubble Wednesday ahead of predicted bitter cold...
More Bodies Found After Eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Marapi, Raising Confirmed Toll to 22 December 6, 2023 By Mardi Rosa Tanjung BATU PALANO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia`s Mount Marapi volcano found 11 more bodies of...
Officials Begin Clearing Debris, 3 Remain Missing in Alaska Landslide that Left 3 Dead November 27, 2023 WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Searchers looking for three people who remain missing after a massive landslide that killed three others...
Over 30 Workers Are Trapped After Portion of a Tunnel Under Construction Collapses in India November 13, 2023 By Biswajeet Banerjee LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Part of an under-construction road tunnel in a mountainous north Indian state popular with tourists collapsed...
German Authorities Halt a Search for 4 Sailors Missing After 2 Ships Collided in the North Sea October 26, 2023 BERLIN –– One body has been recovered, two people have been rescued, and four are missing after two freighters collided...
Afghans Still Hope to Find Survivors from Quake that Killed Over 2,000 in Western Herat Province October 11, 2023 By Ebrahim Noroozi and Omid Haqjo ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Clinging to hope that finding survivors was still possible, Afghan rescuers and villagers kept digging...
Desperate People Dig Out Dead and Injured from Afghanistan Earthquakes that Killed at Least 2,000 October 10, 2023 By Riazat Butt ISLAMABAD (AP) — Men dug through rubble with their bare hands and shovels in western Afghanistan Sunday in desperate attempts...
People in Maui Flee into Ocean to Escape Wildfires that are Burning a Popular Tourist Town August 10, 2023 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher HONOLULU (AP) — Wind-whipped wildfires raced through parts of Hawaii on Wednesday, killing 36 people while burning down businesses in...
Tornadoes, Hail and Hurricane-Force Winds Tear Through West Texas, Killing 4 June 23, 2023 By Ken Miller and Sarah Brumfield A line of severe storms produced what a meteorologist calls a rare combination of multiple tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized...
Brazil Deluge Toll Hits 44 as Search Continues for Missing February 22, 2023 By Tatiana Pollastri and Eleonore Hughes SAO SEBASTIAO, Brazil (AP) — The death toll from flooding and landslides in Brazil’s southern state of Sao Paulo reached...