As powerful waves surged across the vast Pacific on Wednesday, people around the world remained glued to their phones, ...

Tsunami warnings prompted gridlocked traffic as people tried to reach higher elevations in Hawaii, but the threat level was ...

Tsunami are rare, yet incredibly devasting disasters. How can we use science to design supportive tsunami insurance plans ...

Long before modern technology made its progress, nature had its own mechanism in place to issue disaster warnings. Since ...

Washington has some of the highest tsunami risk in the country, and lacks dozens of necessary evacuation sites in coastal ...

Being prepared for one disaster — say, a tsunami that doesn't cause any damage — makes you a lot more prepared for a fire or an earthquake.

Researchers developed a fourth-generation buoy in Seattle that can detect an earthquake-triggered tsunami 10-15 minutes earlier than the previous generation.

Workers at Japan's embattled Fukushima nuclear plant were evacuated earlier on Wednesday after tsunami warnings were issued ...

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.