A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI)–While the beaches of the West Coast luckily avoided being struck by a strong tsunami after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, San ...

The submerged coconut grove at Halapē in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park marks the former coastline that was inundated during ...

Mother Nature can be brutal and unforgiving - as shown by the largest earthquakes on record. Here’s how they compare in their ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Susitna, about 9 miles west of the community and roughly 30 miles from Anchorage.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- A powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile's northern coast Tuesday night, causing landslides and setting off a small tsunami that forced an evacuation of coastal areas.