There’s little doubt that if or when the “Big One” hits the Pacific Northwest, such an earthquake would cause untold damage wherever it occurs. But what happens when a 9.0 quake off the coast triggers ...

A volcanic eruption halfway across the globe had the West Coast of the United States under a tsunami warning on Jan. 15. What local officials are more worried about, though, is the potential for a ...

Could underwater sound waves be the key to early tsunami warnings? Scientists develop new method to calculate a tsunami's size and destructive force by exploiting high-speed acoustic gravity waves ...

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.

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Communities along a 700-mile (1,127-km) stretch of Alaska's southern coast ordered their residents to higher ground Wednesday after a powerful earthquake prompted a tsunami ...

A tsunami advisory is in effect Saturday morning along the Washington coast following a volcanic eruption in the Pacific Ocean near Tonga. Evacuations are not advised, according to Pacific County ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A landslide in Prince William Sound could trigger a large tsunami in an area sometimes frequented by hundreds of fishermen and recreational boaters, scientists and state officials ...