A remarkable find beneath the Pacific Ocean uncovers a fragile clay layer that intensified the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A tsunami warning blared over cellphones across the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday after a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California's coastal areas are obviously at highest risk from an incoming tsunami. But how far inland does the threat extend? The ...

The tsunami hazard workshop was held to bring together impact tsunami experts in an informal setting to resolve apparent differences in their assessments of the magnitude of this hazard. In particular ...

For the first time since 2009, the California Geological Survey has released new tsunami hazard area maps for Ventura, San Diego, Marin, Napa, Santa Cruz, Solano and Sonoma counties to help residents ...

Tsunamis represent a complex coastal hazard arising from sudden seafloor displacement, whether by earthquake fault rupture, submarine landslide or volcanic collapse. Hazard assessment combines source ...

The Minoan eruption of Santorini in the Aegean Sea was one of the largest explosive volcanic eruptions in the Holocene. In the Late Bronze Age, during a disastrous natural catastrophe Santorini tore ...

Tsunami damage is seen near Kealakekua Bay on the Big Island on March 11, 2011. >> “If you are near high-rise buildings when an evacuation order is issued, consider vertical evacuation. To vertically ...

The California Geological Survey announced Thursday a new, interactive tsunami hazard map is online for Orange County that officials say can be helpful in planning evacuations should one of the long, ...

An earth scientist from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science discovered evidence of an ancient underwater landslide and associated tsunami in the Gulf of Aqaba, ...