By chance a tour boat avoided a deadly tsunami set off by the retreat of Alaska's coastal glaciers. Scientists are working to spot landslides like the one that caused the massive wave to warn people i ...

Scientists have known for some time about the 700-mile-long fault off the coast of Washington, Oregon and California, where a wayward slab of the earth’s crust known as the Juan de Fuca plate is ...

The next great American tsunami is not a Hollywood fantasy but a scenario that coastal planners, geologists and emergency managers now treat as a near inevitability. Their fear is rooted in hard ...