As residents flee the Greek Island of Santorini after a spate of tremors earlier this month, we look back at a catastrophic ...

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 ...

A tsunami is a "radical interpretation" of the ... Furthermore, the region was too close to the ancient equator to have experienced hurricanes. The new paper gives a clearer picture of the forces ...

using investigations into tsunami deposits left on land and the traditional method of analyzing old documents. The results of a study on sediments to trace ancient quakes are now incorporated ...

A tsunami advisory has been issued for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after an earthquake in the Caribbean Sea, ...

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 ...

Wason Wanichakorn / AP The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand, including many who remain missing, leaving a deep scar in the nation’s history. Nearly 400 bodies remain ...