Over the past few generations, the world has experienced countless devastating natural disasters; but few are as sudden and ...

(KSWB/KUSI) — Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning, no time to run — just the rumbles of an earthquake, the ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Tsunamis are large, powerful waves caused by the displacement of water in an ocean or a large lake. They are sometimes referred to as tidal waves, although they have nothing to do with the tides. In ...

In this week's column, geologist and earthquake expert Lori Dengler addresses "the two greatest tsunamis to hit both coasts of the Atlantic" in the wake of World Tsunami Awareness Day.

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to New Zealand.

The community of Adak recorded the largest tsunami wave in Alaska at 2.7 feet, or less than a meter. “I think what really surprised us, given the magnitude of that earthquake on Kamchatka, is that we ...