Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people ...

A major earthquake off the coast of Alaska could trigger a tsunami flooding San Francisco's Embarcadero. But the main sensors ...

Indonesia lies strategically between the Asian and Australian continents along the boundary of the Pacific Ocean. This area ...

Scientists say it’s not a matter of if, but when a major earthquake and tsunami will strike the Oregon Coast — and when it does, Central Oregon will also feel the impacts. “It has the potential to ...

Locals in coastal areas were ordered to evacuate immediately and see higher ground. Follow Newsweek for live updates.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by ...

The federal government promised an Oregon hospital millions of dollars to help prepare for an earthquake. They're still ...

When an earthquake threatens to turn part of an ocean into fast-moving walls of water, tsunami warning scientists can do nothing for the first five minutes except wait for information. But within the ...

Early in the morning on October 29, two earthquakes occurred approximately 280 miles west of the Oregon coast in the Pacific Ocean. The first earthquake, measuring 4.8 in magnitude, occurred around ...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Sulawesi on Wednesday (Nov 5) morning at 7.32am (Singapore time).According ...

A series of mild earthquakes were recorded in the northern, Central and Central Highlands regions of Vietnam over the past ...

This week in iReport, we received compelling images and stories from major international natural disasters: a tsunami in the Samoan Islands and flooding in the Philippines from Typhoon Ketsana.