Scientists investigate the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest, and the potential for a catastrophic tsunami.

The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck in the South Pacific near the island nation of Samoa on Friday, but ...

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck near the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The quake struck late m ...

A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck in the South Pacific near the island nation of Samoa on Friday, but caused no apparent damage.The quake occurred 440 kilometres (273 miles) southwest of the capital ...

Japan completed the world’s first real-time ocean floor earthquake detection system in June 2025, giving 20 seconds more ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the ...

But that's a false impression, because the tsunami is coming," he said. The resulting waves would be on the order of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed nearly 230,000 people.

When the Palisades fire raged and winds whipped ash and debris into the Pacific Ocean, scientists with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration — already out in boats doing water-quality ...

PTWC was responsible for supplying tsunami information to 26 countries in the Pacific in addition to alerting Hawaii and U.S. territories but had no arrangements with countries in the Indian Ocean.

Twenty years ago, a tsunami devastated coastal communities along the Indian Ocean. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Margarettha Siregar, who helped respond to the disaster in Indonesia.