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The Pacific Warning Tsunami Center has downgraded the tsunami warning to a tsunami advisory effective 10:38 p.m. today. People who evacuated to higher ground may safely return home, state officials ...

A tsunami, a word that comes from the Japanese characters for harbor and wave, is a series of extremely long waves caused by the sudden displacement of the ocean, according to the National Weather ...

Near-shore tsunamis — those triggered by earthquakes just offshore — could pose a particularly dire risk for heavily populated coastal communities. Depending on the strength and location of an ...

LHOKNGA, Indonesia (AP) — Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has transformed her resilience into purpose. Defying Aceh's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Will McGough writes about travel destinations and outdoor adventures. Hawai‘i’s remote location in the center of the Pacific Ocean ...

The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, ...

A massive earthquake struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia’s far east on Wednesday morning, July 30, local time. The quake was the sixth-largest ever recorded and sent tsunami waves spreading ...

First official megaquake warning issued after 33 hurt by rare 7.5-magnitude tremor - Nuclear power plants urgently carry out checks and at least 90,000 people evacuated ...

The Pacific Tsunami Museum is in dire financial straits, and its organizers hope the community will step up and help it navigate out of troubled waters. According to Carol Walker, acting board chair, ...

Update 10:38 p.m.: The Pacific Warning Tsunami Center has downgraded the tsunami warning for Hawaii to a tsunami advisory. Flooding has been limited to low-lying coastal areas. There are no reports of ...