It was a typical sunny Thursday morning — and suddenly messages popped up on millions of cell phones across the Bay Area and Northern California: “Tsunami warning … you are in danger ...

Tsunamis are a hot topic in popular culture, lately. But is Florida ready for what some experts have warned for decades is ...

A tsunami warning system was built after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe but can we ever be thoroughly prepared for ...

Almost 1,000 kilometres off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the ...

Staff at the Santa Cruz Harbor quickly prepared after a tsunami warning was issued Thursday morning in Santa Cruz County. The warning was canceled shortly after. Staff at the Santa Cruz Harbor ...

Some parts of this system are regularly tested. Every Wednesday morning, for instance, two tsunami alarm systems play the national anthem to check that everything is in order. Approaching his 60th ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...

Almost 1,000km off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves – a ...

Maul among first to sound tsunami alarm The late George Maul, an oceanographer and tsunami expert at Florida Institute of Technology, warned for decades of inevitable tsunamis in Florida and the ...

Residents in disaster-prone areas also receive an SMS alert of an imminent tsunami, warning them to evacuate quickly. Before 2004, it would take anywhere from 15 to 50 minutes before an alarm ...