Catastrophic tsunamis are relatively uncommon, and only two events have caused more than 100 casualties on U.S. soil, both of ...

Towering walls of water traveling at the speed of a jetliner, with coastal communities from Japan and Hawaii to South America and the U.S. West Coast in their path. That was the frightening ...

New research demonstrates shipborne navigation systems have potential to improve tsunami detection and warning. Landslide-generated tsunamis pose a serious risk to coastal communities, particularly ...

Tsunamis have been one of the most dangerous and destructive natural disasters across history, but what exactly is a tsunami?

The quake in Russia on Wednesday was among the strongest ever recorded — but in many places, the resulting wave was small. By Katrina Miller Early Wednesday morning, a powerful earthquake, one of the ...

A tsunami might have occured some 115 million years ago, near where deposits of Cretaceous amber were found in Japan. Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0 Scientists in Japan have uncovered amber deposits ...

After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30, 2025, the world watched as the resultant tsunami spread from the epicenter and across the ...

Many Bay Area residents raced away from the ocean after a jolting cellphone alert warned, “You are in danger.” Others raced toward it. By Heather Knight Kellen Browning and Coral Murphy Marcos ...

Analysis has shown a boulder weighing almost 1,200 tons in Tonga is one of the largest known wave-transported rocks in the world, providing new insights into the Pacific region's history and risk of ...

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula sent a wave of water racing at the speed of a jetliner toward Hawaii, California and Washington state, spurring warnings and alarm ...

They may be relatively rare, but they rank among nature’s most destructive forces. This week, we’re exploring the science behind tsunamis. * The word itself means “harbor wave” in Japanese, and it’s ...

Tsunamis rippled across the Pacific Ocean after a massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Tuesday afternoon off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The largest wave in Alaska was 2.7 feet and ...