A tsunami is a series of long wide ocean waves generated by sudden movement on the ocean floor. Tsunamis can result from earthquakes, underwater landslides, land slumping into the ocean, volcanic ...

SYDNEY, March 26 (Reuters) - Australia said on Tuesday it had installed a deep ocean tsunami buoy in the Coral Sea off its northeastern coast, boosting tsunami detection in a region which has seen two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck far off southwest Australia on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has added Australia to its advisory after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Russia. The earthquake hit east-southeast of Kamchatka in Russia ...

MARK COLVIN: Confusion surrounded the tsunami warnings this morning, as contradictory messages came from different authorities. Just as the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre cancelled the ...

Australia has been placed on a tsunami advisory list after the world's biggest earthquake in 14 years struck off the coast of Russia. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has added Australia to its ...

In 2004 the Boxing Day tsunami took hundreds of thousands of lives. Today, Australia spearheads a warning system for the Indian Ocean. BOXING DAY – 26 December – marks ten years since the most ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck far off southwest Australia on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued. The epicenter was in the Indian Ocean 2,069 kilometers (1,283 ...