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World Tsunami Awareness Day highlights the need for effective early warning systems to mitigate catastrophic events globally.

Several earthquakes struck Northern California Thursday, including a magnitude-7.0 offshore in the Pacific Ocean at 10:44 a.m ...

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Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

Coastal areas in Northern California began evacuating residents after a 7.0 earthquake off Humboldt County's coast prompted a tsunami warning. Luckily, the worst didn't play out. But emergency ...

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported in northern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...