An earthquake has struck off the coast of Aomori Prefecture, east of Japan, where one person reported their 'whole house ...

Water furiously lashing the top of the Empire State Building might sound like the stuff of dystopian sci-fi blockbusters but, in reality, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility. Because, you see, ...

A rare satellite view captured a major Pacific tsunami in unprecedented detail, revealing wave behaviors scientists did not ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. No deaths have been reported from tsunami waves in ...

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit off the Northern California coast didn’t produce a significant tsunami, but it struck a region likely to see a devastating tsunami one day — a reminder of that ...

Last week, just after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake violently shook the eastern edge of Russia, Southern Californians were warned to gird for possible impact: a tsunami was headed across the ocean, ...

This animation shows the simulated tsunami wave heights generated by the M8.8 earthquake. Around 70 minutes after the earthquake, the path of the SWOT satellite appears, shown in slow motion to ...

Death by drowning was the biggest killer in the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Since the disaster, scientists have analyzed the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, seeking better ways to ...