The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest is overdue for an earthquake – and when it happens, coastal communities will be devastated.

A new data visualization illustrates how an experimental NASA technology can provide extra lead time to communities in the path of a tsunami. Called GUARDIAN (GNSS Upper Atmospheric Real-time Disaster Information and Alert Network),

March 27 (Reuters) - Observations made by a satellite operated by the U.S. and French space agencies shortly after a strong earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula last year are giving scientists a better understanding of how tsunamis originate and propagate.

CENTRAL COAST, Calif. — All tsunami advisories have been canceled for coastal zones of California’s Central Coast, covering Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Officials had lifted alerts for most of the West Coast, including the Bay Area and ...

Improving tsunami hazard assessments depends on understanding what happens at the moment an earthquake ruptures beneath the seafloor, especially near deep-ocean trenches where measurements are often scarce.

“Halape ’75: A Crevice in Time” recounts the harrowing story of the Halape tsunami with help from the Pacific Tsunami Museum in Hilo.

As warmer temperatures melt polar ice, a parallel danger lurks in high mountain areas where melting glaciers have created thousands of new lakes.

A massive fault beneath Sulawesi, Indonesia, has been confirmed to extend offshore as a continuous deep fracture through Earth’s crust.