The earthquake recorded Tuesday off Russia’s far eastern coast was one of the strongest in recorded history. People across the Pacific Ocean braced for potentially devastating tsunami to follow. Some ...

One of the most powerful earthquakes in modern history shook Russia’s remote east coast Wednesday, sending tsunami waves hurtling across the Pacific Ocean and putting nations from Japan to the United ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the government set up an emergency task force to urgently assess the extent of ...

Honolulu — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to New Zealand. The ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, a NASA satellite has just watched a giant tsunami unfold in unprecedented detail, turning a once theoretical hazard into something scientists can now see and ...

When a powerful earthquake shook the far eastern edge of Russia in late July, it set off more than a huge movement of the Earth’s ...

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off Russia's coast on Thursday, prompting a tsunami risk in the Pacific Ocean. A tsunami advisory was initially issued for Alaska's Aleutian Islands, but was later ...

ATLANTA — A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula late Monday, triggering a tsunami that surged across the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami alerts stretched from Japan to ...

A groundbreaking moment in ocean monitoring occurred when NASA’s newest satellite accomplished what no spacecraft had achieved before. The Surface Water Ocean Topography satellite, known as SWOT, ...

WASHINGTON — A NASA satellite captured the first detailed, overhead view of a giant Pacific tsunami, and scientists are now sharing how it offers a new look at how tsunamis move across the ocean. In a ...

The fault that produced the earthquake lies between two pieces of hard rock sandwiching a slippery clay layer, allowing for ...