Sep. 12, 2024 — A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout ...

Tsunamis pose a significant threat to all of us, but they are particularly dangerous for certain groups of people, such as women, children, people with disabilities, and older persons. The main ...

New research has found that devastating tsunamis hit the British Isles much more often than previously thought. Scientists had known that a huge wave had swamped large areas of what are now the ...

The last time a major tsunami hit the Caribbean region was in 1946, after an 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola. At Playa Rincón, the sea rushed ...

Since January of 1700, pressure has been building beneath the waters of the Pacific. Off the coast of Oregon and Washington, several tectonic plates have been sliding under the plate beneath the ...

Some residents of eastern Australia experienced brief panic on Wednesday morning after the Bureau of Meteorology sent out a ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The world is more prepared than ever for a devastating tsunami thanks to early warning systems, ocean science experts said Thursday, even though they still cannot ...

Some may remember the Japan tsunami that struck the coast of Oregon in 2011. Dozens of boats were found smashed up against ...

according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Center. No tsunami warnings are currently in effect as a result of the quakes. The largest of the quakes, which registered at 5.0 magnitude, struck about ...

A tsunami is a series of waves generated by the sudden movement of the ocean surface, usually because of earthquakes under the sea floor. Tsunamis can also result from underwater landslides ...

Japan’s 2011 tsunami affected both the rich coastal ecosystems of northeastern Japan and the local communities reliant upon them. The destruction to the landscape wreaked by the tsunami that ...