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Waves that may have reached 100 feet scoured an inlet that’s frequented by cruise ships, tour vessels and pleasure boats.
Something truly astonishing happened in Alaska on Sunday. A mega-landslide and tsunami struck the Tracy Arm south of the city of Juneau. An Alaska seismologist said that the region had been hit by ...
Satellite captures tsunami after 8.8 quake near Kamchatka, helping improve forecasts to protect coastal communities.
Ranked among the world’s most disaster-prone nations, the Philippines endures yearly threats from typhoons, earthquakes, ...
Learn more about the research team that discovered a submarine landslide in the Aleutian Trench, and how it may have ...
The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the tsunami spawned by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the ...
The SWOT satellite caught the leading edge of the tsunami wave (red) that rolled through the Pacific Ocean on July 30. Sea ...
The giant Columbia River reservoir behind the Grand Coulee Dam covers almost 125 square miles, as it reaches nearly to the ...
A massive landslide triggered a deadly tsunami in Chile, in 2007. This became a turning point in tsunami science and risk ...
The last week of July 2025 was big news for earthquakes. Last Wednesday, a super strong 8.8 magnitude earthquake was reported near Russia’s eastern shores. It was near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia ...
This geological event caused approximately 40 million cubic yards of rock to crash into the narrow fjord of Lituya Bay, ...
Tsunamis are rare but the risk is real. Learn which U.S. coasts face the most risk and how to protect your home.