Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline with 80 mph winds on Monday night and hurled an unprecedented 13-foot surge of seawater at New York City, flooding its tunnels, subway stations

Megastorm Sandy battered the USEast Coast today with fierce winds and heavy rains, killing at least 13 people and causing a power plant explosion, besides uprooting trees, power lines and plunging muc

With the current spell of floods and landslides claiming 77 lives in Assam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi are scheduled to visit the affected areas on Monday.

An offi

Rescuers scouring Nepal's central Annapurna region after severe flash flooding said on Sunday that there was almost no hope of finding survivors and that the final death toll could be as high as 60.

One person was killed and four injured following massive earthquakes in Indonesia's Aceh on Wednesday, an official said here on Thursday.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, head of Data Center, Information and Pu

Scientists had been expecting Wednesday's great earthquake off Sumatra but it occurred a little sooner, according to Arun Bapat, an Indian seismologist in Pune.

Bapat is one of the associate scientis

A hundred years after the Titanic sank, two Swedish researchers on Thursday said when it comes to sinking ships, male chivalry is ‘a myth’ and more men generally survive such disasters than women and

Operations at Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) in Kalpakkam near here continued to function normally, even as coastal areas in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh has been put on alert following a massive

A small tsunami measuring 10 centimetres (four inches) reached Thailand's Andaman Coast on Wednesday after a massive earthquake off the coast of Indonesia, an official said.

"A 10-centimetre tsunami

At least three tsunamis of up to 80 centimetres (31 inches) hit Indonesia's coast after a massive 8.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Sumatra island on Wednesday.

"Our tide gauges and buoys recorded