disaster response

A magnitude-5.0 earthquake hit northeastern Taiwan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, causing buildings to shake in the capital Taipei. The quake struck at a depth of nearly 70…

  The wind has been kicking up along Australia’s Gold Coast and so too has the swell. But while authorities have been warning residents to stay indoors as Cyclone Alfred…

Hundreds evacuated from dozens of flooded neighbourhoods around Jakarta on Tuesday as torrential rains pounded the Indonesian capital and its surrounding satellite cities, causing several rivers to overflow. There were…

Los Angeles officials told most evacuees from the wildfires to stay away from their homes at least another week as emergency responders remove toxic waste from incinerated neighbourhoods and cut…