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Byline: Eduardo Cuevas USA TODAY Show Caption Hide Caption One-third of all US homes are in wildfire threat zonesAs they grow in size and intensity, wildfires threaten communities across the [...]

Touching down on Thursday, September 26th, 2024, and continuing until the 29th, Hurricane Helene devastated the southeastern region of the United States. The Category 4 hurricane has left hundreds without [...]

Byline: Phaedra Trethan USA TODAY There are a lot of dangers hidden in floodwaters: debris, bacteria, sewage. In Florida, add alligators, snakes and other wildlife to the list of things [...]

Byline: John BaconTrevor HughesThao NguyenChristopher Cann USA TODAY TAMPA, Fla. êÆ Hurricane Milton howled across the Florida Peninsula on Thursday, tearing a path of destruction from the Gulf of Mexico [...]

For 30 years, Professor Fred Haan has been studying wind's effect on structures. His research primarily involves the wind tunnel testing of buildings and structures both for hurricanes and tornadoes. [...]

For 30 years, Professor Fred Haan has been studying wind's effect on structures. His research primarily involves the wind tunnel testing of buildings and structures both for hurricanes and tornadoes. [...]

Byline: Mary Walrath-Holdridge USA TODAY Show Caption Hide Caption Hurricane Milton prep: Tampa mayor urges residents to evacuateTampa Mayor Jane Castor told residents to evacuate to a higher ground as [...]

Byline: Ananya Pinnamaneni North Carolina suffered 'biblical devastation' from Hurricane Helene last week, with western areas of the state seeing intense flooding that put entire communities underwater. While the full [...]

Lafayette, LA steered clear of Hurricane Francine on Sept. 11 last week, where to most only rainforest-showers and a few howling-winds consisted of their Wednesday. Although the city endured little [...]

Byline: John Buzbee In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Francine, the streets of New Orleans flooded, winds raced at speeds of over 80 miles per hour and over 400,000 Louisiana [...]

Byline: Sara ChernikoffJulia Gomez USA TODAY Show Caption Hide Caption Emergency declared after Line Fire growsCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in San Bernardino County where [...]

CNN -- The deep landslides beneath the multimillion-dollar homes in Rancho Palos Verdes moved at an almost glacial pace, until they didn't. This affluent coastal city in Southern California, around [...]

Byline: Julia GomezZach Urness USA TODAY The Rail Ridge fire in central Oregon has set over 61,000 acres ablaze and is 0% contained. The wildfire was discovered on September 2, [...]

Byline: James Powel USA TODAY ***EVACUATION ORDER***For the #EdgehillFire, an evacuation order has been issued for:All residents living on the south side of and south of Ridge Line DriveAll residents [...]

Byline: Dinah Voyles Pulver USA TODAY Show Caption Hide Caption Remnants of Hurricane Beryl spark damaging storms and tornadoesRemnants of Hurricane Beryl brought high winds, damaging storms and tornadoes to [...]

A tornado swept through the Northwest Arkansas area in the early morning hours of May 26, carving a path of destruction ranging from Rogers to Decatur to the Rocky Branch [...]

OU Aviation is seeking donations to the OU Aviation tornado damage relief effort after suffering ramp and aircraft damages from the EF1 tornado that struck the Max Westheimer Airport on [...]

by NORAH WALSH Editor-in-Chief As of April 1, every employee at Simpson Library and the most frequent library attendees--together, about a fifth of the UMW population--were diagnosed with tinnitus caused [...]

Byline: Tanner Hume On the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, a more powerful Category 4 Hurricane named Ida touched down in Grand Isle, Louisiana. While [...]

Byline: Sam Goodman Facing Fire: Art, Wildlife and the End of Nature in the New West, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art's featured exhibit this fall, depicts 'burn art' [...]

Byline: Mitchell McIntosh content'class='sno-story-body-content sno-no-cap'> A disastrous earthquake struck Morocco's High Atlas Mountain Range on Friday night. The cataclysm has thus far caused the deaths of over 2,000 people in [...]

Byline: Kate Oborina On Aug. 9, a fire started on the Hawaiian Island of Maui and is on track to be one of the deadliest in United States history in [...]

Maui's catastrophic wildfires have left many residents homeless, missing or dead. With at least 114 people dead in Lahaina and over 850 people still missing, residents are caring for each [...]

Byline: Mitchell McIntosh content'class='sno-story-body-content sno-no-cap'> HAWAI'I DLNR Devastating wildfires scorched the Hawaiian island of Maui last week. One of these wildfires completely decimated the historic town of Lahaina. The wildfire [...]

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake (along with a number of subsequent and ongoing quakes) has devastated southeast Turkey and northern Syria and affected many surrounding regions. More than 50,000 people have [...]

Byline: Kate Perez A University of Iowa research lab in Coralville used by the College of Engineering was destroyed by the March 31 storm that caused damage across the city, [...]

Following a tornado that swept through parts of Coralville on Friday evening, many structures were destroyed and debris was scattered in the area of Highway 6 between 25th and 23rd [...]

Byline: Maggie Eubanks On Friday night, a line of storms produced a series of tornadoes throughout Mississippi and Alabama that killed over 25 people. According to NPR, President Biden dispatched [...]

Following a series of earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria a month ago -- leading to a total death toll of more than 50,000 as of March 8 -- students [...]

Byline: Madison Walters Seven tornadoes tore through a handful of Oklahoma towns, including Norman. Storms from the Texas panhandle wreaked havoc on Norman, OK, causing significant damage to approximately 80 [...]

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Following the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the Turkish Culture Association and the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center will hold events on March 1 and March 8 to bring awareness [...]

Following the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the Turkish Culture Association and the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center will hold events on March 1 and March 8 to bring awareness [...]

Byline: Courtney Churchill On Feb. 6 at approximately 4:17 a.m., a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck a minimum of ten provinces of southern Turkey as well as western Syrian cities of [...]

Byline: Kaitlyn Wells When tragedy strikes, there are no expectations on how we are supposed to proceed. Even in light of dark events, we sometimes find beautiful examples of unity, [...]

Byline: Samantha Salerno A devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 hit Turkey and Syria this past week. (Photo courtesy of Emily Garthwaite). On Monday, Feb. 6, a devastating earthquake [...]

Byline: Hannah Murphy Days after a deadly earthquake hit the southeastern region of Turkey and northern Syria, recovery efforts are still in their early stages. The death toll currently stands [...]

Byline: Hisham BensaadatLuca Del Carlo The modern world is no stranger to natural disasters. As technology advances, so does the mitigation of these incidents' deadly impacts. However, there are times [...]

On Feb. 6, Türkiye and Syria were struck by an initial 7.8 magnitude earthquake, followed by a series of quakes, including a 7.5 magnitude aftershock nine hours later. It was [...]

Byline: Fernando Figueroa As Hurricane Ian swept across Florida, damaging populated regions like Southwest and Central Florida, the state's agricultural sector faced a similar devastating fate. Florida agriculture is a [...]

--In 2020, 58,950 wildfires burned 10.1 million acres, the second-most acreage impacted in a year since 1960. Nearly 40% of these acres were in California, where 30 people were killed, [...]

--In 2020, 58,950 wildfires burned 10.1 million acres, the second-most acreage impacted in a year since 1960. Nearly 40% of these acres were in California, where 30 people were killed, [...]

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Firefighters are giving a reminder to people to be mindful of current conditions after a grass fire was sparked from a legal burn pile. At 11:09 am [...]

Byline: Amanda Smith, digital producer ELMO, Mont. - What began as a 200 acre fire on the evening of Friday, July 29 in the Deep Draw area along MT-28 quickly [...]

ELMO, Mont. -- A 2,000 acre wildfire has erupted near Elmo that is causing evacuations and road closures. Near the one year anniversary of the Boulder 2700 Fire, another blaze [...]

Byline: Fergus County DES FERGUS CO., Mont. - A fast-moving grass fire southwest of Bohemian Corner was stopped after burning around 345 acres. On Thursday, the Roy, Hilger and Grass [...]

Byline: Fergus County DES FERGUS CO., Mont. - A fast-moving grass fire southwest of Bohemian Corner was stopped after burning around 345 acres. On Thursday, the Roy, Hilger and Grass [...]

Byline: Brenden Vigil, Kimmy Reinhardt and Danielle Whitaker High winds, dry conditions prompt red flag warnings across region By Brenden Vigil, Kimmy Reinhardt and Danielle Whitaker The smell of smoke [...]

Byline: Taylor Jones, news reporter A wildfire swept through Boulder County Colorado on Dec. 30, resulting in $513 million in damage and an OU alumnus losing his home. Daniel Hesselius, [...]

(The Center Square) - If a major earthquake occurred in Missouri's New Madrid Seismic Zone, researchers say it could be the costliest natural disaster in the nation's history. In preparation [...]