In the days following the disastrous events of December 26, 2004, tsunami researchers produced remarkably accurate computer simulations of the monstrous series of waves that took hundreds of ...

Analysis has shown a boulder weighing almost 1,200 tonnes in Tonga is one of the largest known wave-transported rocks in the ...

New findings show that tsunami risk may be different, though not less, in places along the subduction zone. This is due to the absence of a "megasplay fault," which was previously believed to run ...

Experts have issued a warning about a potential “mega tsunami” that could sweep away entire communities with its massive waves. Alaska, Hawaii and the West Coast of the mainland US face an ...

Last Thursday's Tsunami Warning was scary for everyone who received the alert along the West Coast. Luckily, the warning was canceled, but many people are still wondering — Why was it issued in ...

Yet even in the early hours of the tsunami disaster, scientists began to grasp what was happening. In the following days, using maps of the seafloor and seismic data, tsunami researchers produced ...