One of the most powerful earthquakes in modern history shook Russia’s remote east coast Wednesday, sending tsunami waves hurtling across the Pacific Ocean and putting nations from Japan to the United ...

NASA’s SWOT satellite measured a Kamchatka tsunami in unprecedented detail, helping NOAA fine-tune models and improve early ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...

Here's what we know about what caused the earthquake off Russia's Far East and why the tsunami it generated weren't as big as ...

Millions of people were evacuated, as minds cast back to the devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 in the Indian Ocean and ...

Tsunami alerts blanketed the West Coast and Alaska after one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a zone of high seismic and volcanic activity. It is responsible for most of the world's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Subduction zones drive this activity. Major ...

It was one of the strongest tremors in recorded history, but Wednesday's megathrust earthquake brought less tsunami damage than feared. Here are some factors that may have been at play.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching from Northern California to Vancouver Island, could trigger a catastrophic ...

A Portuguese explorer famously named the Pacific Ocean the "Mar Pacifico" or Peaceful Sea, unaware of the Pacific Ring of ...

A massive underwater volcano close to the US coast is on the brink of erupting after 2,000 earthquakes were recorded in just ...

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling ...