In 2007, a massive landslide crashed into B.C.'s Lake Chehalis, triggering a tsunami that surged 38 metres up the shore — one ...

Tectonic plates cause tsunamis mainly through sudden movements along subduction zones, where one plate dives beneath another.

Tsunamis are a hazard across all three of Canada’s coastlines. The threat for these dangerous and destructive waves is greatest along the West Coast—but the Atlantic seaboard isn’t immune. Atlantic ...

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula sent a wave of water racing at the speed of a jetliner toward Hawaii, California and Washington state, spurring warnings and alarm ...

When 4-foot tsunami waves crashed into the Crescent City Harbor in rural Northern California last week, the dock nearest the harbor's entrance — which was designed to absorb the brunt of the surge ...

(KSWB/KUSI) – Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning, no time to run — just the rumbles of an earthquake, the ...

Locals in coastal areas were ordered to evacuate immediately and see higher ground. Follow Newsweek for live updates.

Evidence of catastrophic medieval tsunami in Caribbean reveals future risk to British Virgin Islands - Findings can support ...

Thankfully, the tsunami advisory that was put out late Tuesday into Wednesday for Santa Cruz County coastal areas did not mean any major damage to low-lying areas — including the Santa Cruz Harbor, ...

Daniel Eungard gets a handful of tsunami alerts each month because of his job running the tsunami hazards program for the Washington Geological Survey. Most of them are nothing. “Every time my phone ...

Tuesday’s quake is the deadliest the country has experienced since October 2013, when more than 200 people died in the ...