A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka ...

The Shoalwater Bay Tribe is getting $2.5 million to build a tsunami vertical evacuation tower on its land south of Westport. The FEMA grant will allow the tribe to build a tower that can hold 386 ...

A UC San Diego seismologist has won an award often called the "Nobel Prize of supercomputing" for developing a tsunami forecasting system.

A tsunami is a series of waves caused by a significant and sudden movement of water in the ocean. The most common trigger for tsunamis is large earthquakes that occur beneath or near the ocean floor, ...

Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, scientists watched one unfold as it happened.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A tsunami sent waves into Russia, Japan, Hawaii and the West Coast of the United States after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Russian Far East early ...

Tsunamis are powerful ocean waves caused by a variety of factors like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or even ...