Thanks to this global monitoring system, which has been deployed for more than 20 years, millions of people in Japan and ...

Air pollution is less dramatic than floods or storms, less inconvenient, and much harder to politicize. It’s also much more ...

A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula early Wednesday morning, creating panic ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami wave that raced across ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off ...

Hours after a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the Russian coast, becoming one of the strongest tremors ever ...

A tsunami sent waves into parts of Japan, Hawaii and the US after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Russian Far East on Wednesday. The quake was one of the biggest ever recorded. Several ...

Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully understood.

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

A tsunami advisory was downgraded to a watch and then completely canceled for the Southern California coast after a massive ...

Waves struck seaside areas of Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast but did not appear to cause any major damage.

Russia’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake spawned serious tsunami warnings, but waves have been moderate so far. Here’s the ...