Los Angeles County sued Edison International to recoup its losses from a January wildfire that was one of the most destructive in California history. The suit alleges that equipment owned by the company’s Southern California Edison utility caused the Eaton Fire. The county claims it’s been saddled with hundreds of millions of dollars in costs … Read more
In the wee hours of December 26, 2004, a massive 9.2 earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, generating an equally massive tsunami that caused unprecedented devastation to 14 countries and killing more than 230,000. Twenty years later, National Geographic has revisited one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history with a new documentary: Tsunami: … Read more
It was a busy time at the Mercadona supermarket in Paiporta, a town of 25,000 residents south of Valencia. On Tuesday, October 29, floodwaters from the hills, following torrential rains, swept through the town and into the store’s parking lot. How many shoppers were trapped in the hundreds of square meters of the underground parking … Read more
