On Tuesday, a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the area around Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, resulting in tsunami ...

A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), ...

How common are they? Tsunamis — particularly large ones like the Sumatra and Tohoku events — are rare, Goda said. "We think that those [occur] at least a couple of hundred years to a thousand years … ...

Tsunami waves have reached the US west coast after a 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia's eastern coast triggered warnings ...

Clearly, tsunamis occur, but how often and how dangerous can they be? Here are a few tsunami facts.

Friday's earthquake off Mexico was the largest in that region in over a century, and will add pressure to a region already being battered by several other natural disasters.

Tsunamis are an extreme force of nature that have the ability to affect hundreds of thousands of people at one time and cause billions of dollars of damage. Meteorologist Kelly Reardon takes a ...

Earthquakes and tsunamis, such as the powerful quake that occurred Sept. 29 in the South Pacific and the wave it generated, can often go hand-in-hand.

The Atlantic coastline is vulnerable to tsunamis triggered by earthquakes and landslides across the ocean basin ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Russia triggered an ocean-wide tsunami that had areas of the U.S. on high alert July 30, but what are the possibilities of this happening on ...

The tsunamis mark the divide between the Archaic and Classic periods in Maori history, Goff said. "The driver is this catastrophic event," he told OurAmazingPlanet. Goff is one of many scientists ...