New images from a NASA satellite are giving scientists a view of tsunamis that they have never had before, revealing intricate structures in the open ocean that were previously invisible. Instead of a ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, a NASA satellite has just watched a giant tsunami unfold in unprecedented detail, turning ...

Tsunami means “harbor wave” in Japanese, but they differ from other waves that are generated by the wind or solar system. Tsunami waves move the entire depth of the ocean, down to the floor, which is ...

Near-shore tsunamis — those triggered by earthquakes just offshore — could pose a particularly dire risk for heavily populated coastal communities. Depending on the strength and location of an ...

On July 29, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. It prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific region. Tsunami waves reached Hawaii and the West Coast but evacuation ...

The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to New Zealand.

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 ...

More than a dozen countries are on alert for potential tsunami activity after the world’s sixth-biggest earthquake hit eastern Russia. The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Russia’s Kamchatka ...