Disaster Emergency Survival Readiness

For the fourth straight day in a row, vicious storms producing destructive tornadoes, very large hail and damaging winds are on the weather menu from the southern Plains to the Great Lakes. This is part of the same storm system that produced a deadly tornado in Moore, Okla., Monday and widespread severe storm reports since Saturday.

Here's how you can help the victims of the Oklahoma tornados online.

A strong 7.4 earthquake rattled residents in southern Mexican resort towns and the nation's capital March 20 2012... A magnitude-7.4 earthquake followed by a powerful aftershock shook Mexico’s Guerrero state Tuesday, breaking windows and sending buildings swaying in the country’s capital, but there were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries.

Solar storms like the one that buffeted the Earth’s magnetic field on Thursday will soon become a common occurrence. Magnetic eruptions on the Sun on Tuesday and Wednesday released two huge bursts of lights — two of the largest solar flares over the last five years

The Earth is being battered by a storm of charged particles from the Sun, which could disrupt power grids, satellite navigation and plane routes.

HARRISBURG, Ill.— 100+ hurt in Illinois. At least 10 people were killed in other states when a severe pre-dawn storm pounded southern Illinois and left the city’s medical center scrambling to treat an influx of injured, authorities said.

Officials initially reported that as many as 10 people had died in the city of 9,000, but later revised the figure. Authorities said at least 100 were injured when a tornado hit the city at 4:56 a.m. today. Between 250 to 300 houses were damaged or destroyed and about 25 businesses were badly hit, authorities said.

Harrisburg Medical Center CEO Vince Ashley could not immediately estimate how many of the injured were treated at the 78-bed hospital, which sustained damage. No one was injured at the medical center, he said......

Suomi NPP, NASA's newest imaging satellite, has taken a high resolution image of Earth, the largest such image ever created.

Radiation from an immense solar blast hit the Earth Tuesday -- forcing Delta Air Lines to redirect at least half a dozen airplanes that had been routed over the North Pole.

MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Emergency workers pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, and officials on Tuesday sharply...

A tornado ripped through a Michigan village leaving more than 100 homes in splinters.

A new service that provides tsunami information online using radars that can detect the waves within 30 km of the coast and capture images of them as fast as 15 minutes before they reach shore.

National Weather Service meteorologist, recorded video of the tornado that hit Henryville, Indiana on Friday.

At least four people were killed overnight as a line of tornadoes marched across the Midwest, hitting places like the tourist hub of Branson. Midwest States Hit By Severe Tornadoes

Over 16 tornadoes reported. Three of the deaths occurred in Harrisburg, Ill., after a possible tornado swept through, destroying 35-40 homes, according to local TV station KFVS12. A hospital official later confirmed the deaths.

The fourth death happened when a suspected tornado hit a mobile home park in southwest Missouri, outside the town of Buffalo. Another 13 people at the trailer park were injured....see video

Massive earthquakes in southeast Missouri. Magnitude 4.0 earthquake at 3:58 a.m. was located near the town of East Prairie, Mo., roughly midway between St. Louis and Memphis. Several people in five states — Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee — felt the quake, along with scattered people in four others, as far away as North Carolina and Georgia, according to responses to the U.S. Geological Survey website.

A powerful winter storm swept across Colorado on Friday as it headed east, bringing blizzard warnings to eastern Colorado and western Kansas, and winter storm warnings for southeast Wyoming and western Nebraska.The storm stretched as far south as New Mexico, where Department of Transportation reported difficult driving conditions on several state highways because of the winter weather, leaving highways snow packed and icy. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center issued a warning through Friday east of the Continental Divide, saying 2 feet of snow or more could overwhelm a weak snow pack, with natural and human-triggered avalanches likely Friday.

Yesterday's solar storm a great chance to catch a photo or video of northern lights or aurora borealis.