On August 31 at midnight, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Afghanistan's eastern Kunar Province near the Pakistan border.

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MARION, Ohio (WCMH) – The Salvation Army in Marion is rolling out a state-of-the-art vehicle that could be a game changer for disaster relief across Ohio. The Marion Corp’s new emergency disaster ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. Extreme ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...