A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In light of the recent tsunami and earthquake news – re: the 8.8-magnitude tremor that struck off the Russian coast, sending ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shallow earthquake damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern ...

New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...

You’ve heard about Washington’s earthquake risk, but you might not realize Washington is also at risk for a major tsunami. It could come with little warning, but you can protect yourself by being prep ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, causing tsunami waves to wash ashore in Japan and Alaska and calls for people around the Pacific to be on alert ...