People living in coastal communities sometimes have only minutes to reach a safe spot after an earthquake-triggered tsunami.

I remember I had been living in Astoria less than two months when, just around 5 p.m., my phone sent me a message from ...

HONOLULU — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to New Zealand. The ...

In 2011, a huge earthquake struck eastern Japan. The magnitude 9.1 earthquake caused shaking at its epicenter for almost six ...

A mother recounts being separated from her children during a tsunami in Hawaii. She describes the cruise ship situation that left the family apart.

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One of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded just struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the Pacific. The magnitude 8.8 quake had its epicenter in the sea just off the ...

One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S.

HONOLULU — One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, Hawaii and ...