(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 ...