A massive earthquake and towering tsunami pushed Japan into one of the most dangerous nuclear emergencies in history. After ...

Tsunami waves crashed into ports along Japan's northeastern coastline on Monday, April 20, after a powerful earthquake shook the region, triggering mass evacuations and invoking the trauma of the 2011 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This map of Japan shows where an underwater earthquake triggered tsunami alerts Monday. Tsunami warnings issued by the Japanese ...

The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Inlet of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 ...

Towering walls of water traveling at the speed of a jetliner, with coastal communities from Japan and Hawaii to South America and the U.S. West Coast in their path. That was the frightening ...

SWOT observations of the tsunami wave field offshore Kamchatka about one hour after the earthquake covering the two parallel diagonal lines cutting across the image. The measurements allowed the ...

Improving tsunami hazard assessments depends on understanding what happens at the moment an earthquake ruptures beneath the seafloor, especially near deep-ocean trenches where measurements are often ...

Last week, just after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake violently shook the eastern edge of Russia, Californians were warned to gird for possible impact: a tsunami was headed across the ocean, taking aim at ...