For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Understanding these ancient tsunami dynamics is not just about reconstructing the past. With modern asteroid-tracking ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

A species of clam discovered in Funakoshi Bay, Iwate Prefecture, after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster was judged to have been 135 years old when it died, ranking it as among the oldest ...

Gelfenbaum G. and Jaffe B. 2003. Erosion and Sedimentation from the 17 July, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami. Pure and Applied Geophysics 160:1969–1999. Goodman ...

This extraordinary series of over 1,200 earthquakes, which experts feared could end in a massive quake and tsunami, brought alive her 25 years of research on ancient tsunamis and seismic events in the ...

Seismic data reveals megaripples in Louisiana, formed by the Chicxulub asteroid’s tsunami 66 million years ago.

Future research would involve digging on the Falklands to try to find deposits from ancient tsunami. “You maybe even want to sample the drift to see what it consists of, what the shear strength ...

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

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