When a massive earthquake hits, the shifting seafloor can trigger a series of large, powerful waves. Coastal Washington residents were on the lookout for a tsunami on Tuesday, July 29, following a ...

When an earthquake threatens to turn part of an ocean into fast-moving walls of water, tsunami warning scientists can do nothing for the first five minutes except wait for information. But within the ...

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29, triggering tsunami alerts for the entire U.S. West Coast and prompting evacuation warnings in Hawaii, the U.S. Geological ...

If a tsunami early-warning system safeguarded Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, would its funding be cut? Answers to hypothetical questions usually stay in the realm of imagination. What we do ...

Some people went clam-digging Saturday despite the tsunami advisory for the Long Beach Peninsula, but "it's my opinion that the majority of people heeded the message" of caution, said Stephanie Fritts ...

Considering the issues with federal government funding, Welter says the city of Westport is fortunate to be able to move ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A tsunami apparently caused by the eruption of an island volcano killed at least 62 people around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, sending a wall of water crashing some 65 feet (20 ...

In 2011, Japan was rocked by a 9.0 undersea earthquake and resulting tsunami. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the waves it generated spanned up to 30-feet high before ...