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This has been a tumultuous week, and today my city has been struck with a debilitating heat wave. Enough of disaster, enough of politics, enough of everything. Today I rummaged...

In the wake of the Chengdu earthquake earlier this week, the Chinese Seismological Bureau had to issue a statement yesterday telling people to ignore rumors of a supposed aftershock prediction....

The Times of London reports that China's bloggers are sharing rumors and conspiracy theories in the wake of the Sichuan earthquake. Because earthquakes are such unsettling and mysterious events, widespread...

A large earthquake struck the heart of western China Monday afternoon local time near the city of Chengdu, killing thousands of people. The US Geological Survey's master page for this...

The flood disaster in Myanmar was caused by a severe storm, but it might as well have been a tsunami — indeed, the Indian media used the traditional name "tidal...