In 2025, the retreating South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska's Tracy Arm, a fjord near Juneau, triggered a large landslide. As debris from the landslide smashed into the water, it triggered a megatsunami ...

The French Riviera may look like an unlikely place for a tsunami disaster, but scientists warn the threat is far more real ...

New satellite images are helping scientists understand a major tsunami that changed the landscape of a popular tourist ...

Researchers have concluded that a 2025 tsunami in Alaska was the second largest recorded natural disaster of its kind in history, with a wave that reached up to 1,578 feet high. The massive tsunami ...

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 ...

A tsunami that struck an Alaskan fjord in 2025 sloshed higher than the height of the top floor of One World Trade Center in New York, new research shows. The study, published May 6 in the journal ...

The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska last August, leaving ...

They may be relatively rare, but they rank among nature’s most destructive forces. This week, we’re exploring the science behind tsunamis. * The word itself means “harbor wave” in Japanese, and it’s ...

New research demonstrates shipborne navigation systems have potential to improve tsunami detection and warning. Landslide-generated tsunamis pose a serious risk to coastal communities, particularly ...

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.

Tsunamis are among the most catastrophic natural hazards, triggered by seismic and non-seismic events, such as underwater earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, atmospheric disturbances, and ...

A large stretch of the Alaska coast was on watch for a tsunami for several hours Wednesday afternoon after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake off the Aleutian Islands, officials said. Subscribe to read this ...