This network of deep-sea buoys across the Pacific and, later, globally, measure changes in ocean pressure in real time, allowing scientists to verify whether a tsunami has actually been generated and ...

One of the most powerful earthquakes in modern history shook Russia’s remote east coast Wednesday, sending tsunami waves hurtling across the Pacific Ocean and putting nations from Japan to the United ...

The world’s most active volcano and earthquake zone is roaring to life, leading to potential of “the big one” – and a ...

It could take hours for tsunamis to cross the Pacific Ocean. The speed of tsunami waves also depends on ocean depth. They travel faster over deep water and slow down in shallow water.

Tsunami alerts blanketed the West Coast and Alaska after one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history.

On April 1, 1946, the magnitude 8.6 Aleutian Islands earthquake in the northern Pacific Ocean generated a tsunami that devastated parts of Hawaii hours later, leading to 146 fatalities.

“Due to a massive earthquake that occurred in the Pacific Ocean, a Tsunami Warning is in effect for those living in Hawaii,” Trump wrote.

Towering walls of water traveling at the speed of a jetliner, with coastal communities from Japan and Hawaii to South America and the U.S. West Coast in their path.

SEATTLE — The earthquake Tuesday off Russia’s far eastern coast was one of the strongest in recorded history. People across the Pacific Ocean braced for a potentially devastating tsunami to ...

The magnitude 8.8 quakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, Hawaii and California.