Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning, no time to run—just the rumbles of an earthquake, the thunder of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY A map shows the epicenter of the major quake off Russia today in relation to Hawaii. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Mindanao in Philippines prompting tsunami warnings. The quake occurred at a depth of 62 km (38.53 miles) the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

There are two big challenges when it comes to tsunamis: first making sure people in the tsunami zone are notified and know ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Sept. 18 off Russia's Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region briefly triggered a tsunami advisory ...

Nine seismic stations in Alaska are set to go dark this month, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data used to determine whether an earthquake will send a destructive wave barreling toward ...

Thanks to the damage wreaked by the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the cleanup costs in the affected seaside towns around the Oregon-California border could be in the millions. According to ...

President Donald Trump awards the Medal of Honor to three U.S. Army Soldiers at the White House. by RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer Mother arrested nearly 50 years after newborn baby girl found ...

Far out along the rocky cliffs of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, seismic technology works to detect tremors that could cause a devastating tsunami. But now nine of those stations are expected to be ...

A powerful earthquake that jolted northern Japan on Dec. 8 and triggered tsunami warnings is not expected to impact the United States, officials said. According to the U.S. National Tsunami Warning ...

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Sept. 18 off Russia's Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region briefly triggered a tsunami advisory for Alaska's Aleutian Islands. However, the advisory for Alaska has ...