An international team coordinated by French researchers has made a major discovery in the Aegean Sea: the precise identification of the underwater rupture that caused the largest modern tsunami in ...

BRITAIN isn't known as a tsunami hotspot – but it's been struck by giant and terrifying waves. The biggest that we know of saw a wall of water 70 feet high crashing into Britain's shores.

In remembrance of the 325th anniversary of the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone lost its grip, on Jan. 26, 1700, wreaking havoc on the Oregon Coast, a wave-height rerun about the “Eight of the ...

JAPAN issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the country on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 23 miles and mainly hit the southwestern Kyushu region, said the ...

The force of the tsunami backwash can be just as strong and in some cases stronger than the initial impact. The biggest tsunami recorded was 1,720 feet tall on July 9th, 1958 in Lituya Bay near ...

The groups find themselves fighting for survival after a volcano eruption threatens to cause the largest tsunami the world has ever seen. La Palma, which is one of the Spanish islands situated ...

However, several smaller tsunamis of only around 20 centimetres ... killing nearly 470 people in Japan’s biggest jolt in more than a decade, many of them elderly residents in the aftermath.