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

No, this wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood disaster film. It was real. On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever ...

Every year, World Tsunami Awareness Day reminds us that early warning and education can save lives. Tsunamis, triggered mostly by undersea earthquakes, have caused some of the deadliest natural ...

A few weeks ago, NOAA announced the cancellation of a contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center to operate nine seismic ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A cave discovered near the source of Indonesia's massive earthquake-spawned tsunami contains the footprints of past gigantic waves dating up to 7,500 years ago, a rare ...

An earthquake between 1381 and 1391 triggered a tsunami in the northeastern Caribbean sea that stranded large coral boulders hundreds of meters inland on Anegada, the northernmost of the British ...

On Friday, March 8, 1957, a tsunami that originated in the Aleutian Islands and generated 32 foot waves hit Kauai and destroyed or damaged 75 homes and left 250 people homeless, while washing out six ...

The rugged Sonoma County coastline—from Point Reyes to Point Arena—is a stunning landscape beloved by residents and visitors alike. But beneath its scenic beauty lies a rarely discussed yet serious ...