Japan has become the first country to cover every inch of the faultlines that trigger earthquakes in the country with sensors and cables connecting to hundreds of observatories to ring the alarm long ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

In a scientific first, researchers have tracked the elusive motion of a rare variety of earthquake during a seismic event ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

Michael Donnellan presented scans showing circular structures submerged on the ocean floor, aligning with Plato's ...

A prediction by a Japanese manga artist has reignited fears of a natural disaster hitting the country this summer.

On Tonga's Tongatapu island, Maka Lahi, a massive coral boulder, stands as evidence of a 15th-century megatsunami. This 1,200-ton rock, located far inland, was carried by a colossal wave ...

Analysis has shown a boulder weighing almost 1,200 tons in Tonga is one of the largest known wave-transported rocks in the world, providing new insights into the Pacific region's history and risk ...

Another is that distinguishing between tsunami deposits and storm deposits is incredibly difficult, with tsunamis leaving some of the same signs as hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons. The new study ...

One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marks its 20th anniversary on Dec. 26 ...