West Coast cities, and Hawaii, this week were warned of possible tsunamis after a large earthquake that hit Russia, and caused a tsunami there. The warnings eventually were canceled, but the danger ...

In Hawaii, the governor calmly told residents to head for higher ground and warned of heavy damage. In Japan, where residents are still scarred from a 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, a normally ...

The July 29 M8.8 Kamchatka tsunami arguably caused more damage and certainly accrued more media coverage than the shaking losses. Two months out, we have a better picture of what happened, how the ...

The next great American tsunami is not a Hollywood fantasy but a scenario that coastal planners, geologists and emergency managers now treat as a near inevitability. Their fear is rooted in hard ...

Japan wanted World Tsunami Awareness Day in November to recognize the heroic actions of Hamaguchi Goryo who lit the rice harvest on fire to grab people’s attention and light the evacuation route to ...

Hutchinson, Ian and Crowell, Aron L. 2006. Great Earthquakes and Tsunamis at the Alaska Subduction Zone: Geoarchaeological Evidence of Recurrence and Extent. Washington, DC: National Earthquake Hazard ...