Following the major 8.8M earthquake off the coast of Russia, tsunami alerts were issued for Hawaii, Alaska and the Continental U.S. West Coast Wednesday. Evacuations were ordered as well. And that's ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Russia's eastern coast overnight. This is the sixth strongest quake ever recorded. The first waves hit Russia and Japan, where nearly two million people were evacuated.

Tsunamis are a hazard across all three of Canada’s coastlines. The threat for these dangerous and destructive waves is greatest along the West Coast—but the Atlantic seaboard isn’t immune. Atlantic ...

The Pacific Northwest, celebrated for its forests, coffee culture, and dramatic coastlines, is sitting on a geological time bomb. Beneath the calm surface of the Pacific, the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake off northern Sumatra unleashed one of the worst disasters in human history, killing an estimated 230,000 people and causing vast environmental harm. However, it ...