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 ...

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

If a tsunami early-warning system safeguarded Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, would its funding be cut? Answers to hypothetical questions usually stay in the realm of imagination. What we do ...

NOAA cuts have left the western seaboard without a crucial resource to measure, understand and predict tsunamis ...

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

Dozens of earthquakes struck near Japan on Monday following a cluster of seismic activity that rocked the area over the ...

A powerful earthquake has rattled northern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. A tsunami advisory is lifted ...

Northeastern Japan is prone to earthquakes, including a triple disaster of a quake, tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in ...

A powerful earthquake, with an upgraded magnitude of 6.9 and a depth of about 12 miles, struck off the coast of northern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

In this week’s column, geologist and earthquake expert Lori Dengler addresses “the two greatest tsunamis to hit both coasts ...

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