A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka ...

MIPT researchers Leopold Lobkovsky and Raissa Mazova, and their young colleagues from Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University have created a model of landslide-induced tsunamis that accounts for ...

Ventura and Oxnard in California could be vulnerable to the effects of a local earthquake-generated tsunami, according to computer models used by seismologists. According to their 3-D models, a ...

HONOLULU In the coming months and years, scientists will pore over reams of data from what turned out to be the minuscule tsunami that reached Hawaii last Saturday. But already, some scientists are ...

A new analysis of the March 11, 2011, tsunami that devastated Japan's east coast could improve flooding forecasts and help prevent a similar disaster from occurring in the future. Despite an ...

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan last Friday (Mar. 11) sent a deadly wall of water roaring ashore the country's main island of Honshu, killing hundreds and washing away cars and ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Few can forget the photos and videos of apocalyptic destruction a tsunami caused in 2011 in Sendai, Japan. Could Ventura and Oxnard in California be vulnerable to the effects of a ...