Water furiously lashing the top of the Empire State Building might sound like the stuff of dystopian sci-fi blockbusters but, ...

Landslides, earthquakes, and subduction faults could generate 1,000-foot mega-tsunamis, wiping coastal communities off the ...

A tsunami originating from a landslide set off seismic waves that were detected across the world. The phenomenon, which ...

More than 25 million cubic yards of rock and ice broke loose and plunged into Greenland's Dickson Fjord, creating a ...

A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inland, making it the biggest ...

The seismic event in a remote part of Greenland last September saw the giant wave repeatedly slosh ... Four-meter-high tsunami waves damaged a research base on Ella Island more than 40 miles ...

The dinosaur-killing asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago also triggered a jumbo-size tsunami with mile-high waves in the Gulf of Mexico whose waters traveled halfway around the ...

In recognition of Tsunami Preparedness Week (March 22-30 ... Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), tsunamis are giant waves caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions under the sea.

Mostly, but not completely. Here's what you need to know. A tsunami is a series of extremely long ocean waves created by a sudden change in the Earth's crust, usually an earthquake or underwater ...

The researchers speculate that the receding sea that precedes a giant wave may have drawn people to the water to collect stranded shellfish. If that happened, the tsunami could have drowned a ...

People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami ... they lost to the giant wave that flattened ...