A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and ...

A tsunami is a series of waves, and the first wave may not be the most dangerous. A tsunami "wave train" may come as surges five minutes to an hour apart. The cycle may be marked by repeated ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

A new study from researchers at Virginia Tech says that there is an increased risk of flooding and tsunamis in the Pacific ...

The movement between continental and oceanic plates at the bottom of the sea, so-called megathrust earthquakes, generates the strongest tremors and the most dangerous tsunamis. How and when they ...

tsunamis remain difficult to predict, in part because the seafloor’s topography can steer them in surprising ways. Tsunamis are one of nature’s least predictable and most dangerous events.

Giant tsunamis are some of the most powerful and devastating natural disasters on Earth. But how do they actually work? In this video, we break down the science behind giant tsunamis, explaining the ...

The most likely source for an East Coast tsunami ... 4.5 or above could cause submarine avalanches and create dangerous tsunamis with waves higher than 26 feet (8 meters), ten Brink told ...

The conditions could have produced a dangerous tsunami ... Other populated regions most at-risk for tsunamis are parts of Crescent City, northern areas of Half Moon Bay, much of Santa Cruz ...

a 25 metre high tsunami could devastate southern Japan and coastal China including Shanghai and Hong Kong. University of Manchester has come up with a list of the top ten most dangerous volcanoes ...

Although California’s most dangerous tsunamis come from thousands of miles away, scientists say they’ve pinpointed a wave trigger that’s much closer to home. Earthquakes along strike-slip ...

Why are tsunamis so dangerous? That's one of the questions answered by The Center for Tsunami Research at the National Weather Service. They also provide a video that shows how tsunamis are forecast.