Tsunami alerts lit up Siri Zama's phone on Tuesday. The 28-year-old high school teacher in Kapolei, Hawaii, fled inland. "It was raining, and the clouds got real dark. It was just a little scary. I ...

I always wanted to be a public servant and do science for the good of the people,” said Corina Allen, who lost her job at ...

An earthquake powerful enough to rank among the top 10 strongest earthquakes on record struck off the coast of Russia on July 29, triggering a series of tsunami warnings and watches. The earthquake ...

Tsunamis are among nature’s most awe-inspiring and destructive phenomena. Triggered by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides, these massive waves can cause devastating damage to ...

As worst nightmares on holidays go, being near a shore with an approaching tsunami tops the list. Luckily, serious tsunamis happen rarely, with those causing damage or death occurring about twice a ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

Not long ago, tsunamis triggered by powerful offshore earthquakes could strike with no warning. Walls of water would sweep across the Pacific, devastating coastal communities thousands of miles from ...

It’s been more than 18 months since NASA narrowed to three the field of competitors vying to build the nation’s next moon ...

Tsunamis made it into the news this month. On July 16, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck south of the Alaska Peninsula, and four days later, a 7.4 occurred off the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka ...