Scenes of destruction are pouring in from Peru, as abnormally large surf – with some reports calling the waves “13-foot” and ...

"We’re glad it didn’t." The conditions could have produced a dangerous tsunami, but there's no way to predict such an event accurately ahead of time, Snider said. So his team errs on the side ...

All tsunamis are potentially dangerous, even though they may not damage every coastline they strike. A tsunami can strike anywhere along most of the U.S. coastline. The most destructive tsunamis ...

Random rogue waves in Florida are more likely than a tsunami but less dangerous. On July 3, 1992, just before midnight, a rogue wave said to be nine feet or taller hit Daytona Beach without ...

She called it “a pretty dangerous situation.” The city of Berkeley was ordering people in parts of the city to “leave now” in anticipation of an incoming tsunami. “It was a strong quake ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one ...

Today people around the world are far likelier to receive a timely warning to evacuate a giant, dangerous wave. But as a Dec. 5 earthquake and (tiny) tsunami off Northern California showed ...

Visitors looks at a tiled memorial wall displaying names of victims from the tsunami 2004 in Tsunami memorial park, at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand ...

Two decades after the deadly waves in the Indian Ocean, our ability to forecast and warn of future dangerous tsunamis has grown. However, the economic and wider human cost of such natural catastrophes ...

Two decades after a devastating tsunami swept across Southeast Asia, Petra Nemcova is recalling what, and who, helped her survive the storm. “It’s always difficult to go back in that moment wh ...