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 ...
When a massive earthquake hits, the shifting seafloor can trigger a series of large, powerful waves. Coastal Washington residents were on the lookout for a tsunami on Tuesday, July 29, following a ...
The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new ...
Tsunami waves reached parts of Hawaii, Alaska, California, Washington and Oregon on Wednesday, triggered by a powerful earthquake in eastern Russia. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit near Russia's ...
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 ...