A massive landslide in Alaska triggered the second-highest tsunami ever recorded, sending water and debris 1,580 feet up a mountainside just hours after tourists visited the area. Scientists ...

One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S.

THERE is a Japanese proverb that goes, “The next disaster strikes when the previous one has been forgotten.” On March 11, ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, prompting tsunami warnings in coastal towns in multiple countries. The earthquake was "on ...

People living in coastal communities sometimes have only minutes to reach a safe spot after an earthquake-triggered tsunami.

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The National Weather Service said the first waves hit the West Coast around 1 a.m. local time, and alerts followed across the Pacific in the hours since. Major tsunami threats against the United ...

Push nature to its limits, and it can produce unexpected natural disasters—something that medieval societies found out the ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook the central Aleutian Islands at 18:51 UTC on October 31, 2026, about 111 km east-southeast of Atka, Alaska, and no tsunami followed. The U.S. Geological Survey located ...

HONOLULU — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to New Zealand. The ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, ...