Tsunami

Moving one and a half inches a year sounds pretty slow, but it’s lightning quick for a mountain. It’s also exactly how quickly Sicily’s great Mount Etna is sliding into the Ionian Sea. At...

Palu earthquake and tsunami: Authorities begin to bury the dead as toll exceeds more than thousands. Now what we know so far: A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday at...

A five-foot tsunami has hit tourist beaches in parts of Majorca and Menorca. A wave measuring almost five feet hit Ciutadella on the west coast of Menorca in the early hours of Monday morning....

Two meteotsunamis developed on Lake Michigan during a single day in April and a newly released modeling of them is giving us a look at their evolution. Meteotsunamis are a type of tsunami, but...

The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami warning sent out to radio and television stations in Alaska Friday morning was meant to be a test, not an alert about an imminent wave....

As much as the British like to pretend otherwise, they're still a part of Europe. For most of Britain's existence, there wasn't even any water separating it from the mainland. In order for it...

This is insane! Planet Earth has accumulated lots of energy, which has to be released... Within three hours on January 23, 2018, a dangerous and shallow M7.9 earthquake hit 280km SE of Kodiak, Alaska...

Yesterday, I wrote an article about the scary absence of large earthquakes last month around the world. Indeed, not a single quake with a magnitude larger than M6.0 had happened in the last 25...

A strange and surprising phenomenon was registered on January 5, 2018, in the tourist resort of El Rodadero in Santa Marta, Colombia where giant waves flooded the beach like a tsunami, baffling hundreds of...

On December 8, 2017, a M5.9 earthquake struck ~200km south of Raoul Island and on the southern margin of Curtis Island in the Kermadecs, New Zealand. A few hours after the seismic event, tunami waves...

Twenty hectares of the remains of Roman ruins under the sea have been discovered in Nabeul, Tunisia. This is a major archeological discovery which confirms ancient stories that a tsunami swallowed up part of the...

Scientists probing under the seafloor off Alaska have mapped a geologic structure that they say signals potential for a major tsunami in an area that normally would be considered benign. They say the feature closely...

An anomalous tsunami engulfed The Carribean coast of Colombia, flooding different parts of the coast near Santa Marta on July 19, 2017. Officials say the small but sudden sea level rise - 50 cm /...

A strong and shallow M6.7 earthquake hit the Dodecanese Islands, Greece - western Turkey border region on July 20, 2017. A small tsunami was produced. At least two people were killed and more than 100...

A tsunami has hit the villages of Nuugaatsiaq, Uummannaq and Illorsuit in Greenland on June 17, 2017. The tsunami, that swept houses into the sea, was most probably produced by a massive rockfall falling into...

A mini tsunami engulfed and swallowed up the beach between Katwijk and Zandvoort on May 29, 2017. Witnesses speak of a huge wall of water crashing on the beach remembering the tsunami in Thailand... A worker explains:...

A group of tourists have gone missing and a man has died after an unexpected tsunami hit Iran on March 19, 2017. Huge waves battered the coastline of Dayyer in southern Iran and killed a...

This is a short but very explicit video showing how mangroves protect us from tsunamis. My question is: Why are we destroying them? There is growing evidence that mangroves’ dense root and branch networks are very...

Submarine slope failures are a likely cause for tsunami generation along the East Coast of the United States. Numerical models of past events reveal possible tsunami impact on Bimini, the Florida Keys, and northern Cuba...

If an asteroid crashes into the Earth, it is likely to splash down somewhere in the oceans. A computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami shows waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the...

Unusal tidal waves flooded coastal homes in southern Java, Indonesia on June 8, 2016. Like a mini tsunami... Scary! @Regrann from @arjunaardana - Gelombang pasang We're in Indonesia especially who live in south coast having trouble...

A 15-foot wall of water could roll across Grand Isle if a landslide occurred in the Mississippi Canyon, a trench in the Gulf of Mexico floor about 30 miles off the mouth of the...

A strong M7.9 earthquake hit southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia on March 2, 2016. The powerfull quake was recorded at 12:49 UTC at a depth of 10 km (6.2mi). Tsunami threat. The earthquake was felt in several regions...

Cascadia Rising will be the biggest seismic exercise ever conducted in the Pacific Northwest. Nearly 6,000 emergency and military personnel will undergo a four-day exercise to test response to a Cascadia megaquake and tsunami. This is fitting,...

Waves of more than 5 meters are currently crashing on the coast of Chile, particularly hitting the city of Vina del Mar. Due to the full moon, swells will intensify on Sunday January 24, 2016. Watch these...

This rogue wave came up fast with lots of logs in the water into Joe Creek, Grays Harbor County, Washington State on january 16, 2016. It looks like a mini tsunami. Look at that, there is speed,...

This incredible video shows the terrifying moment a giant rogue wave slams into a group of 150 swimmers. The monster hit people swimming at the Figure of Eight Pools at Burning Palms in the Royal...

An ongoing swarm of earthquakes has been occurring for 30 days with no end in sight. They are appearing all around Puerto Rico as well as on the nearby Islands where the dangerous Puerto Rico...

Two people have been killed after driving in a giant sinkhole in Coquimbo, Chile. According to preliminary investigations, the huge cavity may have been created by  the earthquake and tsunami that hit the area on September...

A nuclear scientist predicts that a mega-earthquake will change the face of the world. According to Iranian nuclear scientist Mehran Keshe, this inevitable disaster will divide the American continent into two and kill millions of...

There is nothing much to say about these pictures of the tsunami and M8.3 earthquake that shook Chile on September 16, 2015. Just pray for them! Coquimbo has been devastated by the tsunami after a...

A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake shook Chile on September 16 2015. Chilean authorities issued a tsunami alert for the country's entire coast. First M7.9, the now M8.3 quake, 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) below the surface, was centered...

Yesterday, two earthquake swarms have been reported. One in El Salvador and the other in Puerto Rico. This increased seismic activity at shallow depths is most probably related to the awekening of new faults in...

Look at this terrifying landslide tsunami video! The speed and violence of this landslide tsunami is stunning! I have absolutely no idea as to the setting or reason for this quite amazing landslide tsunami! But it...

This is a kind of miracle! Four years after the devastating tsunami in Japan a shipwreck containing live yellowtail jack from the Japanese coast. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department suspects it to be debris from...

There is a storm going in the Black Sea. It created terrifying tsunami waves that overflowed in Giresun. The giant storm waves engulfed the city, creating flash floods and destroying buildings and vehicules. Incredible surge! A storm...

Because of a fast growing island, tsunami fears rise in Japan again. The island is gowing at an amazing 7 million cubic feet per day. If a large enough piece of that island were to collapse,...

These giant tidal bores smashing on bank barriers are spectacular! These freaky natural wonders were spotted in Qiantang River in east China on August 12, 2014. Haining, Qiantang River, China - August 12, 2014. Hundreds of people...

A very large volcanic landslide occurred at the Askja stratovolcano in Iceland on July 23, 2014. The 1-km wide landslide generated 50-meters-high tsunami waves. A giant volcanic landslide created a tsunami after 24 to 60 million cubic metres...

Japanese Fishermen catch 105 "Photonectes" fish near the coast of the province of Kochi. But, what's weird is that this fish species naturally lives at 1,000 meters under the water surface. According to the fishermen, fishing...