The Hokkaido-Nansei-Oki earthquake of 1993 that spawned one of the largest tsunamis in Japanese history killed 15 percent of the people estimated to be in its path. A tsunami that swept across ...

State and local officials were working to assess the full scope of the damage, but early reports appeared to show that the ...

Communities along the coast of Northern California are under a tsunami warning after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit about 70 ...

The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 10:44 a.m., was under the Pacific Ocean, about 65 miles off the coast of Eureka ...

The earthquake occurred at 10:44 a.m. with an epicenter under the Pacific Ocean, about 70 miles southwest of Eureka and 110 ...

Yet despite the earthquake’s intensity — a magnitude of 7.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey — the shaking caused ...