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13 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 6, 2026.
A 30-second eruption in the Sunda Strait pushed ash to 50,000 feet and shut Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport, stranding roughly 22,800 passengers. No one was hurt, and no evacuation was ordered.
Lava fountains reached 1,000 feet above the crater and pyroclastic flows poured into six ravines. Officials raised red alerts in three departments and closed the highway that runs past the volcano.
WatchDays of torrential rain from Tropical Storm Maysak triggered a dam failure that inundated the Guangxi capital, killing at least 39 people and forcing about 130,000 residents to flee as rescuers deployed drones and thousands of boats.
Super Typhoon Bavi, more than 1,000 kilometers across, forced evacuations along Taiwan's mountainous east as China and Japan braced and rescuers in southern China still dug through the wreckage of a storm that killed 39.
The quake off Iwate Prefecture rattled buildings as far as Tokyo and registered violent shaking in Aomori, but officials issued no tsunami warning.
WatchSupercell storms spawned violent tornadoes over Lincoln and Lamar counties Wednesday night, leveling a Bogue Chitto trailer park and tearing the roof off a Purvis church mid-service.
WatchWaves up to 1.8 meters struck harbor towns; Japan’s seawall network credited with limiting inland damage near 2011 disaster zone.
WatchTwo rare particularly dangerous situation warnings were issued within nine minutes. Multiple tornadoes confirmed in Minnesota as record flooding simultaneously strikes Wisconsin and Michigan.
The region's strongest quake in six years killed one person, displaced nearly 2,000, and damaged hospitals and government buildings.
Natural disasters kill at least 89 people this week while destroying thousands of homes in country already struggling with humanitarian challenges.
The deep-focus quake centered 95 miles west of Neiafu rattled nearby Pacific islands but caused no significant damage, its destructive power dissipated by a depth of 148 miles below the ocean floor.
WatchAt least 5,500 residents were ordered to flee their homes on Oahu's North Shore after 8 to 12 inches of rain triggered historic flooding, airlifting 72 children from a youth camp and raising alarms about a dam built in 1906.
A second powerful Kona storm in a week dumps two months of rain on northern Oahu in 24 hours, forcing evacuations near the 1906-era Wahiawa Dam while thousands remain stranded and the National Guard is deployed.