“The Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago has reshaped the way the humanitarian community addresses emergencies today, highlighting the importance of disaster preparedness,” a European Union ...

An earthquake just off California’s coast poses dire tsunami risk for many communities Boats collide as a tsunami’s water sweep through Crescent City, Calif., in 2011.

The worst tsunami to hit the Bay Area was triggered in 1964 by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska, Geist says, that killed 11 people in Crescent City.

The town has little elevation, and the tsunami that could accompany a 9.0 rupture would wash over all of it. People could try driving out, but officials expect roads to be buckled and sunken, or ...

A tsunami that never ends? Study highlights a looming West Coast risk. The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the coast.

A tsunami that swept across Papua New Guinea in 1998 killed 75 percent of the vulnerable population. And the 2004 tsunami killed 90 percent — or 130,000 people — in the heavily impacted parts ...

The Tsunami advisory had largely been cancelled by 9 p.m. along the California coast, including in Los Angeles and Orange counties. However it remained in effect in San Luis Obispo and Santa ...

Validating tsunami models this way helps scientists and planners create maps of high-risk areas, or routes for safe egress, says Pearl: “It’s what’s going to drive where we're putting the ...

Kathryn Schulz writes about how Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s signing of HB 3309 into law, allowing for development in the state’s tsunami-inundation zone, will be disastrous once the tsunami ...

Authorities had issued a tsunami warning for the area, based off readings from seismographic sensors, but Gavin Sullivan, an associate professor at Coventry University who studies disaster ...

A tsunami which struck southern China around a thousand years ago nearly wiped out civilization in what is now one of the most densely populated regions of the planet, according to a new study by ...