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28 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 5, 2026.
Two explosions tore through a defence ministry pyrotechnics depot in Viacha, 30 kilometers from La Paz, injuring 62 people and damaging dozens of homes. Seven people are still missing.
WatchA collapsing Himalayan glacier dumped more than 100 million cubic meters of ice and rock into the Trishuli valley. Three days later, Nepali police are still counting.
WatchThe U.S. State Department says about 90 Americans may be caught up in the disaster. Nepal's tourism board says 65 of them are still unaccounted for two days after the wall of water came through.
WatchThe U.S. Geological Survey put the epicenter beneath San Jose del Palmar in the jungle department of Choco. The deaths are concentrated in Cali, Pereira and the coffee belt.
Three fires burning around Washington's second-largest city have scorched more than eight square miles with zero containment, and forecasters warn the coming days could bring extreme fire behavior.
Rescuers drilled through collapsed concrete for a third day after Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake, while nearly 19,000 homes sat without power and a heatstroke alert went out over the shelters.
A rain-triggered landslide in Chongqing's Pengshui County flattened more than 10 buildings, killing at least eight people as crews with excavators, dogs and detectors raced against the threat of a second collapse.
Investigators are examining flammable soundproofing foam and blocked exits after a late-night blaze tore through a packed live-music venue in the Thai capital.
Flames tore through the packed Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar just before midnight; investigators are examining a ceiling air-conditioner short circuit and combustible acoustic panels around the stage.
Most of the dead were found in the restrooms of the Na Ladprao bar after an apparent electrical fault sparked an explosion and thick smoke, with one exit blocked by a shelf.
Flammable materials and cluttered stairwells turned a midday blaze at a Jinjiang footwear plant into a deadly trap, and company officials have been detained.
Victims were found in burnt-out cars as they tried to outrun flames that swept through the Andalusian countryside during a punishing heatwave.
WatchTwo weeks after twin quakes flattened swaths of the country, acting President Delcy Rodríguez has declared national mourning while rescuers still pull survivors from the rubble.
Two weeks after twin magnitude-7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck near Caracas, rescuers are still pulling survivors from the rubble — and officials warn the final toll could climb far higher.
WatchEleven days after two powerful earthquakes flattened swaths of Venezuela's coast, rescuers are still pulling survivors and bodies from the rubble — and a forensic pathologist says the official toll may be barely a third of the real number.
The roof of a tuition center under construction gave way during class in Pakistan, burying young students and reigniting anger over the country's lax building safety.
WatchA magnitude 7.2 quake struck the country's coast Wednesday evening, followed 39 seconds later by a 7.5 — Venezuela's most powerful in more than a century — flattening buildings across Caracas, La Guaira and Valencia.
A powerful offshore quake struck Mindanao on the first day of the school year, triggering a tsunami warning, landslides and more than 1,000 aftershocks across Sarangani and General Santos City.
WatchThe strongest earthquake to strike the Philippines this year flattened buildings, set off coastal waves and a deadly landslide, and forced mass evacuations across Sarangani and General Santos.
The quake struck off the southern Philippines at dawn Monday, collapsing a hospital, a supermarket and a restaurant and triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific before they were largely lifted.
WatchA magnitude 7.8 quake struck off the southern island of Mindanao on Monday morning, collapsing buildings in General Santos, triggering a small tsunami and sending students fleeing during first-day flag ceremonies.
The quake jolted Mindanao early Monday, collapsing buildings in General Santos City and prompting evacuation orders for nine provinces as waves of up to three meters were forecast.
Travelers returning from Mali to celebrate Eid al-Adha were stranded for days more than 80 kilometers from the nearest town; only two survived, after walking some 50 kilometers to find help.
Rescuers in Angeles City have pulled at least 27 bodies from the rubble of a Balibago high-rise that crumpled before dawn with dozens of workers sleeping inside.
The blaze ripped through the Flourish Stay guesthouse in Malviya Nagar early Wednesday; investigators found the property had no valid fire-safety certificate and was running far more rooms than licensed.
The fire covered more than 100 miles in a single day. Combined with four other simultaneous blazes, over 876,000 acres have burned across the western Nebraska Panhandle and Sand Hills.
WatchBack-to-back Kona Low storms dropped up to 46 inches of rain in five days on Maui, forced 236 rescues on Oahu, and set a Honolulu single-day rainfall record that stood since 1951.
A Colombian Air Force Hercules transport plane went down 1.5 kilometers from its takeoff point near Puerto Leguizamo, detonating onboard ammunition and igniting a fireball in the jungle.