A rare SWOT satellite pass captured a Pacific-wide tsunami in high resolution, revealing complex wave patterns that challenge ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 28, 1908, a major earthquake followed ...

Twenty-one years after the 2004 tsunami almost wiped out Ban Nam Khem, the small fishing village is coping with changing geological, demographic and employment woes while struggling to keep its way of ...

Japan has taken a decisive step toward restarting the world’s largest nuclear power station, as a regional political vote ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co plans to restart the first unit of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world's biggest, ...

Disabled since the Fukushima disaster, local authorities gave the go-ahead for the restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa. Voting took place amid protests from residents. Japan has taken a final step to ...

The governor of Niigata on Tuesday formally gave local consent to put two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the north-central prefecture back online, clearing a last hurdle ...

Since 2011, scientists have been puzzled about the force resulting from a gigantic earthquake and tsunami that destroyed, among other things, Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant. Now, a Guinness World ...

This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of ...

The fault that produced the earthquake lies between two pieces of hard rock sandwiching a slippery clay layer, allowing for ...

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of ...