Water furiously lashing the top of the Empire State Building might sound like the stuff of dystopian sci-fi blockbusters but, in reality, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility. Because, you see, ...

No, this wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood disaster film. It was real. On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. No deaths have been reported from tsunami waves in ...

SEATTLE — It’s hard to imagine anything worse than the 2011 tsunami in Japan. But a professor at the University of Southern California says an even larger tsunami could potentially hit the Northwest ...

Last week, just after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake violently shook the eastern edge of Russia, Southern Californians were warned to gird for possible impact: a tsunami was headed across the ocean, ...

Last week's earthquake off the coast of Humboldt County triggered a tsunami warning that urged people across a huge swath of California and part of Oregon to move to higher ground, regardless of how ...

(Reuters) - Japan's biggest earthquake since records began 140 years ago hit its northeast coast on Friday, causing a 10-metre tsunami that swept away all in its path. The 8.9 magnitude quake caused ...