Earthquakes have shaped the planet’s geography and influenced human history in profound ways. Among these natural events, one ...

Japan is facing the risk of a possible "megaquake" in the near future, following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that occurred off the southern coast on Thursday. If such a megaquake were to occur, it ...

It was the largest quake ever known in Japan ... This video is from a Japan Coast Guard ship, confronting a tsunami wave in shallow water on March 11th. And a rare view from the air: video ...

Tsunamis are actually a series of waves, but are catagorized by the magnitude of the largest wave of the set. There are two types of tsunamis: Local and Teletsunamis. Local tsunamis are waves ...

(Knowing when it's safe to return after a local quake is something still needing research, Bernard says, but as a benchmark, in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 ...

The 9.5 magnitude earthquake in Chile, the largest recorded in the 20th century, set off a tsunami that battered the South American coastline for over 4,000 kilometres with waves up to 25 metres high.

Tsunamis (pronounced soo-ná-mees), also known as seismic sea waves (mistakenly called "tidal waves"), are a series of enormous waves created by an underwater disturbance such as an earthquake ...