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US: Weeki Wachee Preserve Brush Fire Prompts Evacuations in Hernando Beach

A fast-moving brush fire broke out in the Weeki Wachee Preserve in Hernando Beach, Florida, on Sunday, March 29, prompting mandatory evacuation orders. The fire reached an estimated 150 acres and was only 20% contained as of 11 p.m., with no injuries reported.

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US: Weeki Wachee Preserve Brush Fire Prompts Evacuations in Hernando Beach 2

A fast-moving brush fire broke out in the Weeki Wachee Preserve in Hernando Beach, Florida, on Sunday, March 29, prompting mandatory evacuation orders. The fire reached an estimated 150 acres and was only 20% contained as of 11 p.m., with no injuries reported.

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T-shirt art exhibition in western Japan

About 650 T-shirts, mostly designed by disabled people, hang on a beach in Shirahama in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on Nov. 1, 2025, as an outdoor T-shirt art exhibition begins for a four-day run.

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US: Unoccupied Homes in Buxton, NC Collapse Amid Rough Seas From Offshore Hurricanes 2

On Tuesday, September 30, at least five unoccupied oceanfront homes in Buxton, North Carolina, collapsed into the Atlantic due to rough surf driven by offshore hurricanes Humberto and Imelda. Another home fell the following morning, bringing the total to six this week and 18 on Hatteras Island since 2020. No injuries were reported, but authorities closed parts of Cape Hatteras National Seashore due to dangerous debris.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Combined photo shows a beach in Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, before (top) and after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 30, 2025.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a deserted bathing beach in Shirahama in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a deserted bathing beach in Shirahama in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a deserted bathing beach in Shirahama in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a deserted bathing beach in Shirahama in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on July 30, 2025, after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Japan megaquake alert ends

Photo taken Aug. 15, 2024, shows a beach in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Shirahama, western Japan, close to the Nankai Trough that runs along Japan's Pacific coast. The government lifted a megaquake advisory the same day, around the Nankai Trough it issued after a M7.1 quake hit southwestern Japan on Aug. 8.

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Bathing season begins on western Japan beach

People play on a beach in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Shirahama, western Japan, on May 3, 2023. The popular swimming beach, known for its white sand, opens the same day, the earliest among the beaches of the Japanese main island of Honshu.

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Typhoon Lan brings stormy weather in western Japan

Large waves are generated by Typhoon Lan along a beach in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan on Aug. 14, 2023.

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Typhoon Lan brings stormy weather in western Japan

Large waves are generated by Typhoon Lan along a beach in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan on Aug. 14, 2023.

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Typhoon Lan brings stormy weather in western Japan

Large waves are generated by Typhoon Lan along a beach in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan on Aug. 14, 2023.

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Typhoon Lan brings stormy weather in western Japan

Large waves are generated by Typhoon Lan along a beach in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan on Aug. 14, 2023.

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Typhoon Lan brings stormy weather in western Japan

Large waves are generated by Typhoon Lan along a beach in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan on Aug. 14, 2023.

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Bathing season begins on western Japan beach

People play on a beach in the Wakayama Prefecture town of Shirahama, western Japan, on May 3, 2023. The popular swimming beach, known for its white sand, opens the same day, the earliest among the beaches of the Japanese main island of Honshu.

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Typhoon Ma-on moving eastward around Japan

SHIRAHAMA, Japan - Rough waves lap the seashore on Shirahama Beach in Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on July 20, 2011. Ma-on hit Shikoku and continued moving eastward.

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