A tsunami warning has been issued after a significant earthquake hit in the Pacific Ocean on Monday morning. A 6.9 magnitude ...

Over 80 per cent of large earthquakes happen on the edges of the Pacific Ocean, in an area known as ... It generated a local tsunami with waves of up to 50 feet and killed an estimated 10,000 ...

“There was a tsunami then and we know about that tsunami partly from the oral history along the Pacific Northwest coast. We know it from geology studies of tsunami deposits, but we have the date ...

Banda Aceh (Indonesia) (AFP) – Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ... nation on the Pacific "Ring of ...

and ice falling into the ocean, volcanic eruptions, and meteor impacts, can also produce a tsunami. Because of the high number of subduction zones under the Pacific Ocean and Indonesia ...

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 hit the region in one of modern history's worst ...

A powerful earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island, causing widespread devastation across the Indian Ocean region ... Asia and across the Pacific basin. The tsunami was triggered by ...

Tearful mourners prayed Thursday as ceremonies began across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean, in one of the world ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean ... across the Pacific basin. A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami ...