CSIRO fluids modeller Dr Mahesh Prakash is presenting new computer modelling developed in the wake of the tsunami in Japan and Hurricane Katrina in the US at the Coast to Coast conference in Brisbane ...

LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The volcanic eruption in Tonga this month unleashed an atmospheric shockwave that radiated out at close to the speed of sound, pushing large waves across the Pacific to the ...

NEARLY two years ago, Petra Nemcova suffered a tragedy in the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand. The Czech supermodel narrowly escaped with her life but her fiancé was swept to his death. Nemcova, 27, ...

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

New models of the speed and magnitude of a tsunami in the event of a major earthquake show coastal communities on northwest Vancouver Island could be inundated in less than half an hour, while the ...

Scientists working to enhance early warning systems for tsunamis originating from Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone, aiming to reduce the warning time to less than five minutes.

In 2007, a massive landslide crashed into B.C.'s Lake Chehalis, triggering a tsunami that surged 38 metres up the shore — one ...

Jessica Pilarczyk is a coastal geologist investigating how earthquakes, tropical cyclones —which include hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones — and tsunamis impact coastlines. This May, she joins the ...