An 8.8-magnitude earthquake – one of the most powerful ever recorded – struck off the coast of eastern Russia late Tuesday, causing intense shaking for minutes, rattling windows and damaging ...

PADANG, Indonesia — Two years after an earthquake off western Indonesia unleashed a monster tsunami, scientists expect the same fault to rupture again within the next few decades — and this town ...

After a tsunami warning was issued by the Japanese government, workers in the Fukushima nuclear plant situated in the northeast of Japan were evacuated on Wednesday, news agency AFP reported. Tsunami ...

The largest tsunami produced was about 3 feet (1 meter) high, according to the tsunami warning center, which has now cancelled all watches for the area. Dutton said that it is unusual to see such a ...

A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake has set off tsunami alerts in Alaska, Hawaii, and Russia. The quake struck near the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region, off Russia's east coast, on Thursday at 2:58pm ...

HONOLULU — David Sun-Miyashiro was at home on the 31st floor of a Honolulu apartment building, high above danger, when his phone alerted him to a possible tsunami from a massive earthquake far across ...

When a city-size asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs -- and sent a monster tsunami rippling around the planet, according to new research. When a city-size ...

Humboldt County was rocked this morning by a 7.0-magnitude quake that struck a few minutes before 11 a.m. By Thursday afternoon, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an emergency proclamation to help ...