The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the coast.

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand --Tsunami warnings for several Pacific islands, including those in Hawaii, were canceled Friday after authorities determined that a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the tremor struck some 440 kilometres southwest of Apia, Samoa’s capital.

Hawai’i was briefly under the threat of a possible tsunami — based on available data being investigated by forecasters in ...

A tsunami alert was briefly issued after multiple earthquakes, some dangerously strong, struck off the southeast coast of ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck in the South Pacific near the island nation of Samoa on Friday, but ...

An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending large tsunami waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. A ...

After powerful earth tremors in the Pacific Ocean, residents of several settlements in Kamchatka had been advised to climb to ...

After the tsunami in the Indian Ocean caught so many people unaware, U.S. officials said the West Coast wasn’t as likely to be slammed without warning, thanks to a sophisticated tsunami ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said "widespread hazardous tsunami waves" were possible after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific Ocean. There's no tsunami threat to Hawaii or Guam.

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...