Tsunami

For the first time in more than a decade, the state has remapped the tsunami evacuation zones for California. The Bay Area could be...

Hundreds of people near Indonesia's Moluccas islands rushed to higher ground on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, fearing aftershocks and a possible tsunami after a...

Unexpected large swells or mini-tsunamis hit the coast of Chiapas, Mexico and flooded the port of Bonifacio in Corsica within the last two days. The...

Although California’s most dangerous tsunamis come from thousands of miles away, scientists say they’ve pinpointed a wave trigger that’s much closer to home. Earthquakes...

A new suite of DART buoys in the South Pacific Ocean spotted waves set in motion by three tsunamigenic earthquakes that occurred within hours...

The size and impact of Pacific Ocean tsunami waves on the Australian coastline are significantly reduced by healthy coral structures in the Great Barrier...

On Thursday 11 March 2021, a large landslide occurred on the banks of an abandoned and flooded open case coal mine site at Knappensee...

Ocean surges have washed ashore at Tokomaru Bay after a major tsunami alert was issued on March 4-5 morning in new Zealand.     It followed a...

There was no large earthquake off northern Sulawesi yesterday. The region has been actually pretty quiet after the deadly M6.2 jolt that killed more...

It has been 320 years since the last major earthquake hit the Cascadia subduction zone. The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) wants...

A rare meteotsunami formed in the Chesapeake Bay as thunderstorms rolled through Maryland Monday night. According the The National Weather Service’s Mt. Holly bureau the...

A sulfur miner was killed when volcanic activity at Mount Ijen in East Java released poisonous gas and triggered a 3-meter wave in a...

The collapse of an unstable mountain slope in Alaska could trigger a catastrophic tsunami in Harriman Fjord, scientists warn. Rolling through Prince William Sound, which...

The Japanese government says a tsunami of up to 30 meters (100 feet) could hit the country’s northeast in the case of a massive...

On April 5, 2020, a powerful snow storm engulfed Iceland, especially the southern and western parts of the country. Consequently, the strong blizzard created large...

Floods, hurricanes, storm surges. Does Louisiana need to add tsunami to its list of threats? A 15-foot wall of water could roll across Grand Isle if...

A M5.0 earthquake hit 6km N of Johnson Lane, Nevada near Lake Tahoe. Tremors have been felt up to Sacramento, reawakening fears of a quake-induced...

Other than asteroid strikes and atomic bombs, there is no more destructive force on this planet than water. But Oregon’s message to its residents seems...

Tsunamis are cataclysmic nature events. But mega-tsunamis are even stronger. The 1958 mega-tsunami in Alaska reached indeed an amazing height of 1720 feet (524 meters). Can...

Tsunamis are can swallow up islands as well flood and destroy villages within minutes. These natural disasters are just terrifying. New data show that...

A major earthquake in Alaska in 1964 triggered tsunamis that washed ashore a deadly tropical fungus. Researchers believe it then evolved to survive in...

Experts say it’s only a matter of time before the Cascadia causes a massive earthquake that generates a tsunami as much as seven stories...

That is insane. Look at these beachgoers running for their lives as huge tsunami-like waves engulf Praia do Forte, Cabo Frio in the state of Rio...

We know the “really big one” is coming. But what exactly is going to happen to cities along the Pacific Northwest coast? As the...

An ‘atmospheric tsunami’ struck Malta’s east coast early on Monday morning, June, 18, 2019, stranding boats onto the rocks in Xemxija. The strange phenomenon started...

An international team of researchers from the United States, the UK, and Indonesia has developed the first detailed computer model to represent the eruption...

Japan's social media has gone into nervous overdrive following the discovery of a number of deep-sea fish traditionally thought to be harbingers of natural...

The desperate search continues Wednesday for survivors of a tsunami which struck parts of western Indonesia, as the country marks the 14-year anniversary of...

Here a compilation of videos and pictures from the volcanic tsunami most probably triggered by the crater collapse or an underwater landslide due to...

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...

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...

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...

Two meteotsunamis developed on Lake Michigan during a single day in April and a newly released modeling of them is giving us a look...

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...

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...

This is insane! Planet Earth has accumulated lots of energy, which has to be released... Within three hours on January 23, 2018, a dangerous...

Yesterday, I wrote an article about the scary absence of large earthquakes last month around the world. Indeed, not a single quake with a...

A strange and surprising phenomenon was registered on January 5, 2018, in the tourist resort of El Rodadero in Santa Marta, Colombia where giant...

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...

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...