A "megathrust" earthquake and tsunami would devastate the Northwest United States, a geologic region of the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire" called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where major tectonic ...

Japanese authorities issued a tsunami alert for the northeast of the country on Sunday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake was ...

Within minutes, tsunami sirens blared and 2,700 residents evacuated to higher ground. Waves up to 5 meters high inundated the ...

Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a tsunami advisory for parts of the country’s eastern coastline on Sunday after an earthquake was detected in the Pacific Ocean. The ...

Funding and staffing cuts are shuttering the monitoring stations that sustain this life-saving early warning system.

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake off Japan’s Iwate coast sparked a tsunami advisory, highlighting once again why Japan faces so ...

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off the Sanriku coast in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday evening, prompting Japan ...

It's been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, but funding has been cut.

When an earthquake threatens to turn part of an ocean into fast-moving walls of water, tsunami warning scientists can do nothing for the first five minutes except wait for information. But within the ...