One of cinema's best-known action movie icons has opened up about his near brush with death when a devastating tsunami hit the Maldives. The actor reveals in the book that the disaster forever changed ...

Warning, advisory, watch? They’ve got very different meanings. By Talya Minsberg and John Keefe A tsunami could cause widespread flooding of the coast and nearby waterways. Move inland or to high ...

The Honolulu City Council is urging the Department of Emergency Management to release its long-awaited after-action report on the tsunami warning that sent thousands scrambling and created massive ...

As the hours ticked by, bigger and bigger waves struck the Japanese coast. Residents in the north island Hokkaido and the main island Honshu could do nothing more but wait for the danger to pass. The ...

The launch of Samoa’s Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme marks a significant step in strengthening community-based disaster preparedness in one of the world’s most hazard-exposed regions. Officially ...

The Indian Ocean Tsunami hit the region on December 26th, 2004, and took the lives of 230,000 people. In the Maldives, where Li and his family were, 82 people were killed, with 26 still missing. The ...

Ventura Harbor experienced unpredictable currents and damaging surges following a massive undersea volcanic eruption near Tonga on Jan. 14. As a result, the Ventura Port District Board of ...

The next time a motorcycle washes up on your local beach, there is a number to call and a location to email a photo. The state Ecology Department is asking beachcombers to throw away plastic foam, ...

One of cinema’s best-known action movie icons has opened up about his near brush with death when a devastating tsunami hit the Maldives. Jet Li, star of such hits as Fearless, Hero, and Kiss of the ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Nearly a year after the tsunami warning that sent thousands scrambling and created massive traffic gridlock across Oʻahu, the Honolulu City Council is asking the city's Department ...