The Asian tsunami that crashed into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is this century’s deadliest ...

Tsunamis are among the most infrequent of Earth’s natural hazards ... floor,” the US Geological Survey explained. However, recent research from academics at the California Institute of ...

But as a Dec. 5 earthquake and (tiny) tsunami off Northern California showed, we can’t rely on just seismic information to generate warnings. That recent tsunami was only about two inches high ...

A 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California in early December triggered a tsunami warning for parts of the ...

Survivors and families of victims visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia ...

Commemorating 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the deadliest in history, and its enduring legacy.

Last Thursday's Tsunami Warning was scary for everyone who received the alert along the West Coast. Luckily, the warning was canceled, but many people are still wondering — Why was it issued in ...

But the greatest advances are in observation and alerts. There are tsunami warning centers now monitoring most of the world’s ocean basins. These sea level observation systems have grown ...

There are many scenarios where a tsunami could be forecast with many hours of warning, and the most at-risk areas would be limited to beaches and harbors. The risk could be widespread, however.

LHOKNGA, Indonesia — Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has transformed her resilience into purpose. Defying Aceh's ...

Previously, the most recent tsunami that the province had experienced was nearly a century before, when a tsunami hit Simeulue Island off the southern coast of Aceh in 1907 and killed 400.