Strong storms have repeatedly pounded Santa Cruz in recent years, most notably collapsing a chunk of its wharf this week. Is ...

It has been 20 years since the deadliest tsunami ever recorded, one that devastated communities around the Indian ocean and ...

One of Australia's closest neighbours proposes 29 locations for nuclear power plants across the archipelago, but critics say ...

"The wave came in and just took her, it just took her away." On Boxing Day 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered a ...

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

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, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...

Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.

The deadly tsunami that swamped India's southern coast two decades ago was a one-off disaster, but storms that are growing ...

Netflix's disaster series "La Palma" is the No. 1 show in the U.S., but is it based on a true story? Did a volcano and ...

earthquakes below or near the ocean floor are the most common cause of tsunamis, which are one of the most powerful and destructive natural forces that can cause dangerous coastal flooding.