A tsunami hit the coast of Peru. Several ships were destroyed by the meter-high waves and towns were flooded. Fishermen are ...

Some sections of Northern California's coast are considered vulnerable to tsunamis. Here's where those locations are and how ...

The huge swell struck the coastline of Peru, Chile, and Ecuador one day after an environmental emergency was declared in the wake of an oil spill in the region ...

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

A tsunami warning indicates widespread water inundation is imminent, expected or occurring, according to the National Weather Service. Dangerous coastal flooding and powerful currents are possible ...

A magnitude-8.6 quake in the Alaska Subduction Zone generated this tsunami, which caused flooding about 1,000 feet inland in Half Moon Bay on California's Central Coast. Damage was estimated at ...

An earthquake that struck off the coast of California on Thursday sparked tsunami warnings for the coasts in California and Oregon.

Twenty years ago today, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake unleashed a tsunami across the Indian Ocean region. Towering waves, some ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...

And not all tsunamis will flood the entire hazard zone. If a tsunami is, say, more than four hours away from arriving, officials may be able to issue fine-tuned orders that will limit the scope of ...