On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake struck Japan from its main island, Honshu. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake, one of the ...

Twenty years after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed thousands, Riley Kehoe recalls the terror she felt as a girl facing a ...

Jan. 26, 2025, marks 325 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve learned about this largest fault system in the lower 48 states ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami led to an increased awareness about earthquake preparedness among Kathmandu residents.

Oregon scientists are hoping to help the coastal communities survive a major inundation in various ways. One of those is ...

Japanese baseball prodigy Roki Sasaki issued a pledge of solidarity on Wednesday as he was formally unveiled by the Los ...

His house was washed away and both of his paternal grandparents and his father, Kota, were killed. Sasaki and his mother and ...

TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory was issued for part of southwest Japan after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Monday, but the ...

Twenty years after the catastrophic Boxing Day Tsunami killed some 230,000 people around the Indian Ocean, tsunamis have again been in the news recently in the wake of warnings in the Pacific ...

Some 6,000 aftershocks followed. The tsunami that rose from this great shifting of tectonic plates reached over 115 feet in some places and ultimately killed about 230,000 people in Indonesia ...

More than 225,000 people were killed in a dozen countries. In the years following the disaster, multiple governments developed a global tsunami information system, building on the US National ...