From hundreds of miles above Earth, a NASA satellite has just watched a giant tsunami unfold in unprecedented detail, turning a once theoretical hazard into something scientists can now see and ...

Aerial view of the August 2025 landslide and tsunami near South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska A massive 'megatsunami' wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second ...

If you’re one of the roughly 1.6 million people who took a cruise in Alaska last year, chances are you sailed through the Tracy Arm fjord. The picturesque, narrow fjord is a popular sightseeing area ...

It was the second highest tsunami ever recorded on Earth,” says Aram Fathian, a researcher at the University of Calgary and co-author of a recent Science study that reconstructed this event in detail.

Scientists reconstructed a 481-metre tsunami that struck Alaska's Tracy Arm Fjord after a huge landslide. The near-miss event highlights how glacier retreat can destabilise slopes and trigger extreme ...

Tracy Arm Fjord, in southeastern Alaska within the Tongass National Forest, presents a majestic vista, with a narrow sea inlet surrounded by towering granite cliffs, waterfalls and glaciers. One ...

The collapse of part of a mountain into a fjord in southeastern Alaska created a wave taller than the Eiffel Tower - “It was sheer luck that no cruise ships were in the area,” experts say ...

A powerful earthquake has struck Indonesia’s eastern waters, killing one person and triggering a tsunami warning across the ...

Scientists and UNESCO warn that parts of France and Spain could face fast moving tsunami waves from the Mediterranean with very little warning.