Imagine a 1,000-foot wall of water racing toward the U.S. It sounds like science fiction. But in 1958, a mega-tsunami in Alaska reached over 1,700 feet high. Scientists say under the right conditions, ...

In the spring of 2024, a group of scientists attending a national seismology conference in Anchorage purposely sailed into danger. Chartering a tour boat, they sailed into Prince William Sound and ...

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 ...

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make ...

They may be relatively rare, but they rank among nature’s most destructive forces. This week, we’re exploring the science behind tsunamis. * The word itself means “harbor wave” in Japanese, and it’s ...

Coral skeletons left by a tsunami over 630 years ago are a warning for the Caribbean region, according to new research. An earthquake exceeding magnitude 8.0 rocked the north eastern Caribbean ...