Towering walls of water traveling at the speed of a jetliner, with coastal communities from Japan and Hawaii to South America and the U.S. West Coast in their path. That was the frightening ...

Tsunamis are among the most catastrophic natural hazards, triggered by seismic and non-seismic events, such as underwater earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, atmospheric disturbances, and ...

Not long ago, tsunamis triggered by powerful offshore earthquakes could strike with no warning. Walls of water would sweep across the Pacific, devastating coastal communities thousands of miles from ...

New research demonstrates shipborne navigation systems have potential to improve tsunami detection and warning. Landslide-generated tsunamis pose a serious risk to coastal communities, particularly ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Here in Kern County, we’re pretty used to earthquakes — but tsunamis are something different. With these recent events happening across the world, I wanted to learn more ...

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to investigate the plate boundary fault that ruptured during the Tohoku ...

Residents pick up debris in Haleiwa on March 9, 1957, after a tsunami washed over the island chain, causing significant damage to parts of Oahu and Kauai. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser welcomes all ...

Many Bay Area residents raced away from the ocean after a jolting cellphone alert warned, “You are in danger.” Others raced toward it. By Heather Knight Kellen Browning and Coral Murphy Marcos ...

Not long ago, tsunamis triggered by powerful offshore earthquakes could strike with no warning. Walls of water would sweep across the Pacific, devastating coastal communities thousands of miles from ...