A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The event occurred off the southwest Boso Peninsula, which is just south of ...

Discover some of the deadliest earthquakes on Earth that reshaped the world, caused tsunamis, and left lasting impacts on ...

'Unseen footage' of the deadly tsunami that killed over 220,000 people in 2004 has been shared online. On Boxing Day 2004, ...

This geological event caused approximately 40 million cubic yards of rock to crash into the narrow fjord of Lituya Bay, ...

It was also the sixth-biggest quake ... more than 80% of the world’s largest quakes occur. Several tectonic plates meet there. The ring gets its name from the volcanoes that surround it. While not all ...

In Japan, people flocked to evacuation centers, hilltop parks and rooftops in towns on the Pacific coast with fresh memories of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused a nuclear disaster.

The sixth most powerful earthquake on record triggered widespread evacuation orders across multiple countries including the ...

As climate change increases the likelihood of glacial melt and destabilized terrain in some parts of the world, scientists warn that rare events like the Lituya Bay tsunami could happen in similar ...

Nation/World Tsunami evacuations ordered in South America, but worst risk appears to pass for the U.S. after 8.8 quake By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press ...

University of Southern California says an even larger tsunami could potentially hit the Northwest coast if a Cascadia mega-quake strikes.

HONOLULU (AP) — One of this century's most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska ...