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 ...

'Unseen footage' of the deadly tsunami that killed over 220,000 people in 2004 has been shared online. On Boxing Day 2004, ...

“Residents and visitors who evacuated may return home at this time. Please use caution and patience as traffic will likely ...

Japan’s Meteorological Agency downgraded its tsunami alert to an advisory in the Pacific coast south of Fukushima, with the ...

A groundbreaking study from Virginia Tech warned that three US states are at significant risk of experiencing catastrophic ...

It was also the sixth-biggest quake ... more than 80% of the world’s largest quakes occur. Several tectonic plates meet there. The ring gets its name from the volcanoes that surround it. While not all ...

In Japan, people flocked to evacuation centers, hilltop parks and rooftops in towns on the Pacific coast with fresh memories of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused a nuclear disaster.

A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake early ...

This geological event caused approximately 40 million cubic yards of rock to crash into the narrow fjord of Lituya Bay, ...

The sixth most powerful earthquake on record triggered widespread evacuation orders across multiple countries including the ...

Nation/World Tsunami evacuations ordered in South America, but worst risk appears to pass for the U.S. after 8.8 quake By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of this century's most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska ...