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Tsunami waves begin hitting Hawaii after a 8.8 earthquake near Russia. Kristy McNichol Now: Why the 'Family' Star Left ...
The magnitude 8.8 quake is believed to be the joint sixth-largest on record, though only minor injuries near the epicenter ...
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...
The Northwest is itself overdue for a megaquake — one we are ready for on neither a personal nor political level.
A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula early on July 30, triggering tsunami ...
Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...
Overnight, the Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka erupted for the first time in 600 years, Russia's RIA state news agency ...
Tsunami warnings are being downgraded in most areas following one of this century’s most powerful earthquakes in Russia.
Outlining the geology of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, situated off the coasts of Kamchatka ...
Tsunami alerts were also in effect in Alaska, the U.S. West Coast and down the Pacific Rim to New Zealand. The earthquake, ...
It seems that for the size of the earthquake, the tsunami has been rather small. To understand why, we can look to geology.