Honolulu Mayor urged residents to head to higher ground, while Hawaii Governor Josh Green emphasized immediate evacuations from coastal areas.

Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning ...

Water level data from Lake Pontchartrain’s New Canal gauge showed small, rhythmic oscillations after the quake, called a ...

Tsunami alerts were triggered in Alaska, Hawaii, and California. In Hawaii, the tsunami warnings shifted to an advisory, and ...

Dave Snider, Warning Coordinator with the Tsunami Warning Center, says Alaska got lucky after the magnitude 8.8 earthquake ...

The event highlighted the need for preparedness, as an earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone could generate a local ...

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A new assessment of the enormous Tintina fault suggests it has been slowly accumulating strain over thousands of years.

Hawaii officials say the timing of the tsunami warning and evacuation orders following this week's massive earthquake off ...

The Florida Division of Emergency Management's website says the probability of a tsunami hitting the state's coastline is ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded ...