A violent earthquake was only the beginning. Minutes later, an enormous tsunami slammed into Scotch Cap Lighthouse, wiping out the station and killing everyone inside. The disaster became one of the ...

Even riding at 70mph, you ain't outrunning a 1,500-foot tsunami.

Tsunami waves reached parts of Hawaii, Alaska, California, Washington and Oregon on Wednesday, triggered by a powerful earthquake in eastern Russia. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit near Russia's ...

It stabilized into a seiche—a continuous sloshing wave that bounced back and forth from wall to wall for nine days straight.

A deadly earthquake rocked the southern Philippines, killing dozens of people and sending small tsunami waves toward at least three nations.

Two major earthquake zones threaten the United States in very different ways: Cascadia, off the Pacific Northwest, and New Madrid, buried beneath the Mississippi Valley. Cascadia could trigger five ...

A powerful earthquake has struck off Japan's northern coast but there was no danger of a tsunami, the country's meteorological agency said.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden weakness beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s catastrophic 2011 ...

If you've ever wondered what the safest place is to be during a tsunami, your first thought is most likely high on a mountaintop somewhere. But what about the depths of the ocean, in the fortified ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — One of the world's strongest earthquakes struck Russia's Far East this week, causing tsunami waves in Japan and Alaska, and prompting warnings for Hawaii, North and Central ...

Much of the West Coast of the U.S. is under tsunami alerts, after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck eastern Russia and sent powerful waves into Japan, Hawaii, California and counting ...