There’s an innate human yearning for greatness – bigger, better, more, more, more. And surfers, amongst the rest of the world, are not immune from this craving. Particularly when it comes to big wave ...

No sooner had the tsunami watch been issued than the text messages began coming in. Friends and family wanted to know if I was safe. Would the waves reach me? Should I drive, or even run, to higher ...

The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake off northern Sumatra unleashed one of the worst disasters in human history, killing an estimated 230,000 people and causing vast environmental harm. However, it ...

All inhabitants along the Pacific Ocean, from Russia to Japan to Hawaii and the West Coast, were on high alert yesterday, following an earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula. The 8.7-magnitude quake ...

The earthquake off Tonga has resulted in Pacific-wide tsunami warnings, including the whole Australian East Coast and US West Coast. It seems like an extraordinary event, but really, it isn’t.

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On July 29, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. It prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific region. Tsunami waves reached Hawaii and the West Coast but evacuation ...