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 ...

Armed Forces in French Polynesia are currently on alert after authorities have warned of 13 ft tall waves in Nuku Hiva island. Meanwhile, residents in California's Crescent City were advised to remain ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — At least 113 people were killed after a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake slammed into villages on Indonesia’s Mentawai islands, officials and aid workers said ...

At least 373 people were killed and more than 1,400 are injured after a tsunami struck Indonesia's Sunda Strait on Saturday night, Indonesian authorities said. Officials also confirmed that the ...

Vast stretches of Japan's Pacific coast were hit by tsunami waves that at one location exceeded 1 meter on Wednesday, after a ...

Tsunami death toll in Indonesia crosses 400; officials warn that second giant sea wave is possible The tsunami was preceded by a potent volcanic blast that may have triggered it.

One of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded just struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the Pacific.

APIA, Samoa - A powerful earthquake in the South Pacific hurled a massive tsunami at the shores of Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages and sweeping cars and people out ...

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

Two decades ago, as thousands of vacationers scattered across the sunlit shores of Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka on Christmas getaways, a mighty force rattled the depths of the ocean floor ...

Emotional ceremonies were expected across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas ...