During our recent ShakeOut drill, a number of people asked me about dam safety during earthquakes. I am not an earthquake engineer and by no means an expert in dam safety. But I have been poking into ...

BURLINGTON — State regulators are trying to protect Burlington from a “tsunami” flood disaster if the Echo Lake dam should fail, a city official said during a community meeting on the lake’s future.

On the night of October 9th, 1963, a 260-million-ton slab of Mount Toc suddenly collapsed into the Vajont reservoir, ...

As a coastal community bordered by mountainous hills on one side, the city of Half Moon Bay has found itself uniquely ...

CIRENDEU, Indonesia -- Survivors say when the dam gave way in the middle of the night, water surged through their neighborhood outside Jakarta like a tsunami, demolishing hundreds of houses, tossing ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A wall of water from a burst dam killed 52 people on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta Friday, crashing into hundreds of homes while many residents slept, officials ...

The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office confirmed it received several calls about an alarm warning of a dam breach shortly ...

The country’s president said the nationwide flooding after the storm hit last week was the most challenging natural disaster ...

Residents of the Pennsylvania steel town that fateful May morning in the spring of 1889 heard a low rumble in the distance that might have been the sound of thunder, and they noted a breeze blowing ...