A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), onto land. These walls of water can cause widespread destruction and death ...

On Tuesday, a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the area around Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, resulting in tsunami warnings being issued around the world. But how often do they occur and is ...

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The event occurred off the southwest Boso Peninsula, which is just south of ...

Tsunami waves have reached the US west coast after a 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia's eastern coast triggered warnings across the Pacific Ocean. Nobody has been hurt thanks to early warning ...

Here is how tsunamis are created and why they’re so dangerous: What is a tsunami? Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them.

A tsunami warning was issued for California's North Coast, after a massive earthquake off the coast of eastern Russia.

You're enjoying a holiday under some palm trees and suddenly you get a tsunami warning. It can happen not only in the Pacific but also in the Indian Ocean and around the Mediterranean, where ...

A series of earthquakes struck more than 100 miles off the Southern Oregon coast on Monday night and early Tuesday morning.

Residents who live in red areas of the map, mostly along coastlines and harbors, are in the tsunami evacuation zone and are ...

The earthquake struck around 165 miles northwest of Eureka, California, at 9:08 p.m., officials for the U.S. Geological ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...