From hundreds of miles above Earth, a NASA satellite has just watched a giant tsunami unfold in unprecedented detail, turning a once theoretical hazard into something scientists can now see and ...

The recent landslide-generated tsunami in Tracy Inlet of Southeast Alaska recalls the granddaddy of them all: the giant wave that scarred Lituya Bay in 1958. Lituya Bay, on the Pacific coast about 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late July, a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula off the coast of Russia. And following the tremor, ...

Can a magnitude 8.8 earthquake occur under the Pacific and not trigger a disastrous tsunami? This week’s earthquake drama off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula gave a definitive answer: yes ...

Last week, just after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake violently shook the eastern edge of Russia, Californians were warned to gird for possible impact: a tsunami was headed across the ocean, taking aim at ...