A monumental discovery has revealed that an asteroid struck the East Coast of North America roughly 35 million years ago, ...

Scientists were able to estimate the extreme effects of the collision, which occurred in the Gulf of Mexico just north of what’s presently the Yucatán Peninsula and caused a global tsunami that ...

Climate and Environment. ... "We could have a tsunami affect the entire west coast of the U.S. from a large magnitude earthquake that occurs as far away as Alaska or even in Japan," Cochran said.

Natural disasters and extreme weather events will only become more frequent with climate change, and it’s possible that many of the long term effects that arise will be similar to those from ...

Indeed, the largest tsunami on record, which pounded southeastern Alaska back in 1958, was so huge that its effects can still be seen from space more than six decades on.

As the people of Southeast Asia struggle to recover from the Asian tsunami, we take a look at the environmental and ecological impacts of all that seawater. Plus, anecdotal reports suggest that ...

Climate and Environment. 5 things Californians should know ... "We could have a tsunami affect the entire west coast of the U.S. from a large magnitude earthquake that occurs as far away as Alaska ...

The modeled tsunami sea-surface height perturbation(in meters) four hours after the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact. (Image credit: Range et al. in AGU Advances, 2022) ...

Tsunamis are a hot topic in popular culture, ... ENVIRONMENT. Is Florida ready for a tsunami? ... The impact to the state is unknown because of the sparse population at the time.

Called the great quake of Lisbon, the tsunami also nearly destroyed the city of Cadiz, Spain. Estimates of the death toll range from 12,000 to 50,000.

It also triggered a monstrous tsunami with mile-high waves that scoured the ocean floor thousands of miles from the impact site on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, according to a new University of ...

The tsunami had a domino effect of devastation. In Sri Lanka, the tsunami created the worst rail disaster in history when it threw a train off its tracks, killing around 1,700 people . Eranthie ...