A powerful offshore earthquake struck north-eastern Japan late at night, triggering tsunami warnings and setting off ...

A major earthquake this week has parts of the United States and other countries on high alert for a potential tsunami. On Wednesday, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake was detected 50 miles south of the ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new ...

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 ...

The NWS is forecasting peak tsunami wave heights of 1.7 to 3.2 feet for Port San Luis, 0.9 to 1.7 feet for Santa Barbara and less than 1 foot for Los Angeles. Tsunamis often arrive as a series of ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A storm that blew through earlier this month might have triggered a rare phenomenon for the East Coast: a tsunami. Tsunami-like conditions were observed June 13 at more than 30 ...

This image captures the modeled propagation of the tsunami wave generated by an 8.8 magnitude megathrust earthquake off the coast of Kamchatcka, Russia on July 29,2025. When an 8.8 magnitude ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake — one of the most powerful ever recorded — struck off the coast of eastern Russia late Tuesday, causing intense shaking for minutes, rattling windows and damaging ...

A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami off Russia in late July tested an experimental detection system that had deployed a critical component just the day before. A recent tsunami triggered by a ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at tsunamis. Tsunamis are formed by a displacement of water - a landslide, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or slippage of the boundary between two of the earth’s tectonic plates ...