Over the past few generations, the world has experienced countless devastating natural disasters; but few are as sudden and ...
No, this wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood disaster film. It was real. On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever ...
A 1958 landslide triggered a 1,720-foot mega wave in Lituya Bay, Alaska, erasing forests, sinking boats, and rewriting ...
Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, ...
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking ...
The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. No deaths have been reported from tsunami waves in ...
Oregon scientists are leading the world in tsunami research, helping communities better understand and prepare for one of the ...
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake – one of the most powerful ever recorded – struck off the coast of eastern Russia late Tuesday, causing intense shaking for minutes, rattling windows and damaging ...