Imagine a massive wall of water slamming into the West Coast, giving residents just minutes to escape. This nightmare ...

Confusion surrounding last Wednesday’s midday tsunami alert opened opportunities to better coordinate warnings among federal ...

A series of three earthquakes jolted the area near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky within a 32-minute window on Sunday. The most powerful of the tremors, originally measured at magnitude 7.4 and later ...

Hawaii’s unique position in the center of the Pacific Ocean makes it particularly vulnerable to tsunamis from both distant ...

PANGANDARAN, Indonesia Indonesia pledged to build a nationwide tsunami alert system as soldiers pulled bodies from ravaged beaches, homes and hotels Tuesday. Parents searched tearfully for their ...

After the quake struck, a warning from the U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers said tsunami waves were possible within 300 kilometers of the earthquake's epicenter. This includes Puerto Williams and ...

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s heavily populated coastal communities.

Coinciding with an Alaska earthquake that briefly had the coast on the edge of tsunami worries, and the day a wildfire was ...

An evacuation alert was issued for parts of far southern Chile after a large earthquake struck the sea south of the country Friday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey said a tremor with a ...

Map: 6.0-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Crete, Prompting a Tsunami Alert By William B. Davis , Madison Dong , Judson Jones , John Keefe , Joey K. Lee and Bea Malsky Updated May 18, 2025 at 9:16 ...

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California's heavily populated coastal communities.