The pristine Balinese beaches of the tropical paradise on Australia's doorstep have been swamped by the worst tidal wave of trash the island has ever seen. An epidemic of tourism overdevelopment ...

The 2004 tsunami was not simply a natural disaster but a graphic exposure of the failure of the capitalist system, the ruling ...

Waves towering up to 100 ... along with tidal gauges and ocean buoys, can pick up early signals of the tremors that generate tsunamis, and improved communication networks help get those warnings ...

The huge wave of water known as a tsunami, can be incredibly destructive as it surges onshore carrying all but the most solid objects inland.

An earthquake measuring 6.9 magnitudes occurred near the southeastern coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu and tremors were ...

Today people around the world are far likelier to receive a timely warning to evacuate a giant, dangerous wave. But as a Dec. 5 earthquake and (tiny) tsunami ... only about 10 tidal gauges are ...

The havoc and tragedy unleashed by the Boxing Day tsunamis set alarm bells ringing. When the tidal waves struck, there was no warning system. However, one positive and lasting outcome was the ...

The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed ... which was flattened by tidal waves, on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005.

Waves towering up to 100 feet high swept ... A network of seismometers to detect undersea earthquakes, along with tidal gauges and ocean buoys, can pick up early signals of the tremors that generate ...