While tsunamis are more commonly associated with the Pacific Ocean, scientists say New York and the U.S. East Coast aren’t ...

In 1998, a massive tsunami struck the coast of Papua New Guinea, wiping out entire villages in an instant. But the real ...

A new international collaboration is surveying ancient landslide sites in two deep undersea canyons to better understand New ...

Underwater Volcano Erupts Near Tonga Satellite images show an undersea volcano erupting near the South Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday. The country’s meteorological service said a tsunami ...

Although it was pointed out that the tsunami could have been triggered by an underwater volcanic eruption or a seabed landslide, the cause remained a mystery. The government’s Earthquake ...

We thought we knew what caused this mixing – in summer, we thought it was mainly wind and tides, but it never occurred to us that iceberg calving could cause internal tsunamis that would mix ...

“We created a model of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami wave in the lab and tested the effects of damage caused by different wave heights, with and without underwater barriers resembling corals,” said ...

The plume of ash and gas blotted out the sun. Tsunamis hurtled outward, engulfing villages in Tonga’s low-lying islands and crashing into shorelines as far away as Peru. It was one of the most ...

Tsunami experts theorize that shock waves produced after a massive underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga on Jan. 15 caused the higher tidal levels seen along Japan's Pacific coastline.

By surveying, mapping and sampling two different areas off the Wairarapa and Canterbury coasts which have previously experienced huge landslides, they hope to better understand the hazard and risk ...

Royal Navy personnel are helping scientists warn of potentially catastrophic tsunamis by researching huge underwater volcanoes on the edge of Antarctica. Navy icebreaker HMS Protector has used her ...

Konstantin Zhiltsov, a researcher at the TSU Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, with colleagues from the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is ...