Here is a look at tsunamis. Tsunamis are formed by a displacement of water – a landslide, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or slippage of the boundary between two of the earth’s tectonic plates – slabs ...

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Because the ABC Emergency Alerts system relies entirely on information published by emergency agencies, despite the best efforts of those agencies, the ABC cannot guarantee that this information will ...

On Boxing Day, 2004, Tilly Smith and her family were enjoying an early morning walk along Mai Khao beach in Phuket, ...

Here are some things to know about tsunamis: A tsunami, a word that comes from the Japanese characters for harbor and wave, is a series of extremely long waves caused by the sudden displacement of ...

ABC News’ Diane Sawyer interviewed Nemcova in the months after the tragedy. Now, 20 years after one of the deadliest natural ...

"It was a very weird, very shallow earthquake that involved a lot of vertical motion of the seafloor, which tends to produce more tsunamis, and that was the basis for that warning that we all ...

Since 1800, California’s shores have been struck by more than 150 tsunamis, most of them minor, according to the California Geological Survey. Phones buzzed Thursday when the National Weather ...

The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed ...

Tsunamis are a series of waves dangerous many hours after initial arrival time. The first wave may not be the largest," the National Weather Service said.

“Community exposure to tsunamis in California varies considerably ... with these new buildings with the dampeners,” he told ABC 10. “You can stand still and kind of feel yourself wobbling ...