One of the major causes of casualties was that people in certain areas were not alerted of the incoming wall of water. Now, ...

Today's "silver tsunami" looks quite different from the one predicted 10 years ago. As more and more older adults fall into homelessness, there are few societal safeguards for them.

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

Thursday, Nov. 5 is World Tsunami Awareness Day. As an exercise, I did a search for the word “tsunami” in the news. The posts fell into three categories: recent tsunamis, potentially ...

Scientists may have discovered a new ally in efforts to keep ... In a study now under review in ... How commercial vessels could become tsunami early-warning systems (2020, December ...

Following a Magnitude 7.4 earthquake Tuesday night south of Chignik, the National Tsunami Warning Center has issued a warning for coastal Alaska from Kennedy Entrance, 40 miles southwest of Homer ...

Rare “tsunami earthquakes”, while just medium-sized as earthquakes go, cause disproportionately large and devastating tsunamis. News Sports Politics Outdoors Life Advertise Obituaries ...

Opinion: 20 years ago a tsunami killed 230,000 people. We can do better now. With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook the seafloor off Indonesia, sending a 100-foot wall of water to communities and killing over 220,000 people.