Tsunami alerts popping up on islanders’ cell phones the evening of July 29 caused some panic and confusion. The advisories were legitimate, stemming from an 8.8 earthquake off the Kamchatka coast in ...

In this week's column, geologist and earthquake expert Lori Dengler addresses "the two greatest tsunamis to hit both coasts of the Atlantic" in the wake of World Tsunami Awareness Day.

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

As powerful waves surged across the vast Pacific on Wednesday, people around the world remained glued to their phones, tracking the tsunami’s fast progress. But in China, more than a million people ...