With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.

The warning applied to 5.3 million people in California, according to the Associated Press, although not all received it — ...

Normally, tsunamis are triggered by underwater earthquakes at a subduction zone, where tectonic plates move up or down on top of each other. However, the earthquake last Thursday occurred on the ...

On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, the coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, was filled with thousands of people ...

Tsunamis are devastating natural disasters, but they're also rather rare. They require specific circumstances, but some ...

The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from Northern California to ...

A tsunami warning system was built after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe but can we ever be thoroughly prepared for ...

Tsunamis are rare, but can be extremely deadly ... meaning two of the Earth’s tectonic plates slid past each other. The Earth is made of these plates, and they’re in constant motion.

These tsunami-generating earthquakes originate mainly in subduction zones, where tectonic plates collide and one is forced under the other,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

The tsunami warning that came screaming through ... volcanic "ring of fire," to understand that my state exists on the precipice of tectonic plates, both underground and deep in the sea.