Water furiously lashing the top of the Empire State Building might sound like the stuff of dystopian sci-fi blockbusters but, in reality, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility. Because, you see, ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. No deaths have been reported from tsunami waves in ...

Last week's earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County triggered a tsunami warning that urged people across a huge swath of California and part of Oregon to move to higher ground, regardless of how ...

Death by drowning was the biggest killer in the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Since the disaster, scientists have analyzed the massive Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, seeking better ways to ...

MOSCOW — A powerful earthquake struck Wednesday off Russia’s Far East coast, flooding a fishing port with waves from a tsunami, cutting power to a few areas and sending some panicked residents fleeing ...

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula sent a wave of water racing at the speed of a jetliner toward Hawaii, California and Washington state, spurring warnings and alarm ...