This fact has caused some to question whether this tsunami should be considered the largest ever recorded. Nonetheless, scientists with the United States Geological Survey have labeled it as such. As ...

On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever recorded after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake triggered a colossal ...

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The event occurred off the southwest Boso Peninsula, which is just south of ...

On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever recorded after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake triggered a colossal ...

The world's largest tsunami sent waves taller than The Shard, Empire State Building, and Eiffel Tower.

HONOLULU — One of this century's most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska ...

This geological event caused approximately 40 million cubic yards of rock to crash into the narrow fjord of Lituya Bay, ...

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the largest earthquakes on ...

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

The biggest tsunami ever recorded reached 1720 feet high—which is taller than the Willis Tower in Chicago.