Area residents told local media they heard tremors on the mountain before the landslide. Ecuador's Risk Management Secretariat said more than 30 people were rescued after the mountainside collapsed around 10 p.m. Sunday.
An unrelenting cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed at least 56 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night, authorities in both...
After several weeks of dry winter as Alps received less than half of the normal snowfall, a new cause of concern regarding drought has arrived in Italy. Venice, where flooding is the most widely known concern, is facing...
The strong earthquake has wrecked havoc across Ecuador with many buildings and structures left reduced to rubble.
Cyclone Yaku is present in the South Pacific off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador, where it has affected some provinces in both countries. The unusual event has caused rainfall, flooding of towns, roads and rivers overflowing.
In the aftermath of the massive earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, Resul Pookutty recounts his time spent in Bhuj after the earthquake in 2001. He was part of an international search and rescue team. A first-person account
Turkey's disaster management agency said more than a dozen professional divers were involved in the rescue efforts in each of the two provinces. At least 14 people have died so far including five Syrian nationals whose...
Playing on the front foot, cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan helped his fellow countrymen find their feet after the 2004 catastrophe
Maharashtra cadre IAS officer Ashutosh Salil writes on how recurring floods disrupting the lives of people in Bihar, year after year, led to the addition of an...
An ambitious mountaineer recounts the experience of being in the thick of a deadly avalanche on the highest mountain range in the world. While he survived to...
Three regions–one between central Himachal and north Bihar, the other between the Shillong plateau and the Mishmi Hills in Arunachal and another in...
Natural disasters are devastating but they are also emotionally draining. Time heals. In my 50 years of life, I have witnessed many natural disasters. Who am...
The people who live on the embankments of the Kosi river are relentlessly ravaged by the river and neglected by the state
Even before the two countries could recuperate from the devastating aftermaths of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on February 6, another massive quake of 6.4...
21 years ago, on the morning of Republic Day, residents of Bhuj woke up to an earth-shattering disaster that took nearly 20,000 lives
Mass cremations, damage to property and deaths in the family are hallmarks of the devastating earthquake in the Kutch region of Gujarat in January, 2001.
In the 22 years since the Bhuj earthquake, the lives of people in Kutch, the district devasted by it, have changed but the psyches of the people still carry...
The killer waves of the 2004 tsunami washed the entire family away except for Karibeeran and his wife. They later turned their two-storied house into a shelter...
Meral has no clue for how long she would have to live in the tent or whether she would be able to return to her home. Her three children, who are still in...
A journalist recalls his own, and other people’s, experiences in earthquake rescue operations in Turkey
With historic buildings across cities and townships razed to rubble in the Turkiye earthquake, citizens, including children, are coming together to help...
Those who manage to recover the dead and perform their last rites consider themselves lucky
Disasters on the scale we see are human-made and based on poor planning and mindless construction
How does one write disaster? How does one turn the shards of memory into text?
A week after earthquakes killed tens of thousands in Syria and Turkey, sorrow and disbelief are turning to anger.
