In talking to a host of experts on tsunami detection and hazard mitigation, it's clear that numerous challenges exist to ensuring that disaster officials are well-prepared for the next big tsunami ...

The Big One refers to a potential magnitude 8.0 ... that this type of earthquake had been unlikely to cause a tsunami. Goldfinger said that the quake, which occurred on the Mendocino triple ...

But Geist says it’s unclear how a tsunami from “The Really Big One” would affect the Bay Area. “Oregon, Washington and California north of Eureka would really bear the brunt of that ...

Scientists warn seismic energy accumulating under the Chishima Trench off Hokkaido has the potential to trigger a magnitude-8 ...

For those traveling through Japan’s Iwate prefecture, a visit to Takata Matsubara Memorial Park for Tsunami Disaster and the ...

Like Purkis, he also wasn’t sure how a supervolcanic eruption in that location would trigger such a big tsunami. Scientists probably would know about a super eruption in advance because of the ...

A new international collaboration is surveying ancient landslide sites in two deep undersea canyons to better understand New ...

The tsunami advisory was lifted from most coastlines ... That does not mean there's an imminent danger of a big quake in the near future, but they urged residents on the coasts along the trough ...