(KSWB/KUSI) – Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning, no time to run — just the rumbles of an earthquake, the ...
The fault that produced the earthquake lies between two pieces of hard rock sandwiching a slippery clay layer, allowing for ...
No, this wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood disaster film. It was real. On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever ...
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake — one of the most powerful ever recorded — struck off the coast of eastern Russia late Tuesday, causing intense shaking for minutes, rattling windows and damaging ...
Tensions have waned as tsunami advisories, watches and warnings across the West Coast have largely dropped off as of late July 30, all in the wake of an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck off the ...
According to a study published in the journal Science, researchers can now explain why the earthquake off the Japanese coast ...
(Reuters) - Japan's biggest earthquake since records began 140 years ago hit its northeast coast on Friday, causing a 10-metre tsunami that swept away all in its path. The 8.9 magnitude quake caused ...
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa was among 54 reactors shut after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant.