Residents of coastal California, Oregon and Washington scrambled for answers to a vital question: How big would the waves get ...

A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia has generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section ...

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The ...

Thanks to this global monitoring system, which has been deployed for more than 20 years, millions of people in Japan and ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the largest in the past century, struck off the coast of Russia this week, prompting ...

After the massive 8.8 earthquake near Russia's Kamchatka, global tsunami alerts echo fears from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Nearly at least 230,000 lives were lost then.

Such quakes happen along subduction zones—where one tectonic plate dives beneath another—causing the ocean floor to jolt ...

Nicknames aside, Ocean City has long looked after Bob Godfrey. He died this week at age 85.