The potential impact of retiring owners and resulting small business exits is particularly pronounced in rural and small-town Canada, where 98.6% of businesses are locally owned.

Beach-goers at Tybee Island’s North Beach have coined the phenomenon “mini-tsunamis” to describe the massive wakes created by passing container ships. The surges, which catch unsuspecting beachgoers ...

The unstable new coastline poses safety risks for the tourists that flock to coastal glacial areas for their beauty and ...

The U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) insists that earthquake forecasting is not possible. Thus, the agency only calculates the ...

The Japanese government fears there is between a 70 to 80 per cent chance a so-called 'megaquake' could rattle the country ...

The Japanese government has warned of catastrophic economic damage and nearly 300,000 deaths when the next "megaquake" hits the archipelagic nation, according to a new estimation released on Monday.

On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake centered near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands triggered a tsunami that pounded the ...

False tsunami warnings on social media have led to hotel cancellations and trip postponements in Trang, impacting tourism ...

Tsunami warning lifted after 7.1 earthquake hits near Tonga in the South Pacific - A strong 7.0 magnitude earthquake has hit ...

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has caused slight damage in Tonga and brief evacuations before the threat of a tsunami passed ...