A 7.8 magnitude undersea earthquake near Russia caused a tsunami scare. Here's why we fear the destructive waves ...

Waves that travel across the ocean as fast as a jet. They are 30 m (100 ft) tall. And can uproot trees and move houses. So why do people always think they can outrun them? Tsunamis are caused by ...

Tsunamis are among the most powerful and destructive natural forces on Earth. These massive surges of water form through entirely different processes than regular ocean waves, and their size can range ...

NASA’s GUARDIAN system detect a tsunami from space, giving coastal communities faster warnings and more time to respond.

The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, ...

In the areas near the source, the first tsunami surges arrived in as little as 30 minutes after the earthquake. Most of the ...

TOKYO -- Coastal residents fled to higher ground as a powerful earthquake sent a series of moderate tsunamis toward Japan's northeastern shore Tuesday and fueled concerns about the Fukushima nuclear ...

A quake that struck at a depth of 10 kilometres off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula sparks warnings of potential waves three metres above a standard tide level in parts of the Pacific.