Visiting Beijing at the height of U.S. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day” trade war rhetoric this April, Kenyan President William Ruto described a “broken ... global order". He declared that ...

The city is in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, in the Far East of the country by the Pacific Ocean. Roaring waves hit US ...

The giant Columbia River reservoir behind the Grand Coulee Dam covers almost 125 square miles, as it reaches nearly to the ...

An area near Petersville, Alaska, was hit with a 4.6 earthquake on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

One of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history generated an hourslong game of wait-and-see last Tuesday, July 29, as ...

The Krasheninnikov volcano’s first eruption in centuries is believed to have been triggered in part by the massive earthquake ...

Kadia Goba reports on Congress for The Washington Post. She covers the internal dynamics and power struggles among Republicans in the House of Representatives as well as their relationship to the ...

Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ...

A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful, 8.8 ...

Daniel Eungard gets a handful of tsunami alerts each month because of his job running the tsunami hazards program for the Washington Geological Survey. Most of them are nothing.

If you’re in Ocean Shores, or if you’re in parts of Westport, the evacuation time is 30 minutes, 60 minutes on foot, to high ...

The Northwest is itself overdue for a megaquake — one we are ready for on neither a personal nor political level.