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Even a small amount of water inside a home can cause costly damage. Here’s how to assess your flood risk and what to do if ...
Homeowners in Louisiana and Florida face the highest estimated annual losses per person from natural disasters, a new report found.
Flash floods have swept across Kerr County in central Texas, killing at least 91 people including 28 children. Ten children ...
Google Maps alerts you when a natural disaster is imminent, and help you find an emergency shelter.Here's how to use Maps emergency features.
The Pentagon agency that maps the world wants to create a global geographic intelligence database that can anticipate future world trouble spots and humanitarian crises by combining detailed ...
Google Maps is useful for finding directions to a gas station or discovering new restaurants in your neighborhood, but it could also now save your life during a natural disaster.
If the New Yorker article last summer on the Really Big One still has you thinking about how that natural disaster will affect you, this map might help.
How maps tracking climate disasters fall short—and endanger lives When fires blazed through Northern California last fall, I looked to online maps to tell me whether my family and I were safe.
It Took a Natural Disaster for Me to Understand Snap Map A year after Instagram killed its maps feature, Snap nailed it. Houston proved it. Joe Raedle/Getty Images ...
A new map of shows the US counties most vulnerable to a disaster such as a hurricane, earthquake or tornado ...