An international team coordinated by French researchers has made a major discovery in the Aegean Sea: the precise identification of the underwater rupture that caused the largest modern tsunami in ...

In remembrance of the 325th anniversary of the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone lost its grip, on Jan. 26, 1700, wreaking havoc on the Oregon Coast, a wave-height rerun about the “Eight of the ...

On Boxing Day 2004, a monstrous 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian ocean, unleashing widespread devastation in the surrounding land. Two decades on, many still reflect on the fateful ...

“Now, the Cascadia subduction zone is our biggest tsunami threat on the U.S. West Coast. And we've got really good evidence that it last ruptured in 1700. And the magnitude was probably right ...

The underwater quake hit around 80 miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan’s biggest island. Hundreds of aftershocks followed in the ensuing weeks — many of which were magnitude 6.0 and stronger. It also ...