A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the largest earthquakes on ...

There have been five devastating tsunamis in the state since the 1700s, but none quite match up to the destruction caused by ...

Indeed, the largest tsunami on record, which pounded southeastern Alaska back in 1958, was so huge that its effects can still be seen from space more than six decades on. The apocalyptic wave ...

When it hit, it triggered the largest tsunami in history, which mixed up the oceans and pushed debris from the land into areas by coasts. The heat caused by the impact boiled off the upper layer of ...

The mediterranean sea straddles two tectonic plates and is lined by large towns and cities. We need to take the tsunami ...

Up to 200 times the larger than the one spelling dino-doom, it was so huge that it made the ocean boil and caused the largest tsunami ever recorded, the research published in the journal PNAS ...

Before this study, the largest earthquake ever recorded was in 1960. The Valdivia earthquake, which struck in southern Chile, was placed at a 9.4-9.6 magnitude. It caused a tsunami that reached ...

A tsunami is not expected, according to the U.S. National Tsunami Warning System. It was the third-largest earthquake reported off the Oregon coast by the USGS in the past 10 years. The USGS said ...

If the largest of these were repeated today, it would generate tsunami capable of inundating Balikpapan Bay - an area close to the proposed capital. But the international team cautions against an ...

Tsunami waves often look like walls of water and can attack the shoreline and be dangerous for hours, with waves coming every 5 to 60 minutes. The first wave may not be the largest, and often it ...