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 ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the ...

An Alaska tsunami warning had residents scrambling for high ground after 7.3 magnitude earthquake Communities along a 700-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast ordered their residents to ...

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Alaska Peninsula on the afternoon of July 16, briefly triggering a tsunami warning for the state's southern coast as communities were ordered to move inland ...