Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning ...

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 ...

Indeed, the largest tsunami on record, which pounded southeastern Alaska back in 1958, was so huge that its effects can still be seen from space more than six decades on.

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

The biggest tsunami ever measured occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska, on July 9, 1958. It was 1,720 feet high - that's taller than any building in the world, almost 300 feet taller than the Sears ...

It was one of the strongest tremors in recorded history, but Wednesday's megathrust earthquake brought less tsunami damage ...

A magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia threatened tens of millions of people with a tsunami risk. So why did Tuesday's mega-quake cause so little harm?

The tsunami that killed 230,000 people in 2004 was the biggest in the Indian Ocean in some 600 years, two new geological studies suggest. That long gap might explain how enough geological stress ...

US Pacific Coast faces potential devastation from a mega-tsunami triggered by a major earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction ...

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 ...