Tsunamis that cause damage or death near earthquakes occur about two times a year, according to the Global Historical Tsunami Database. A tsunami racing across an ocean and causing damage or ...
Commemorating 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the deadliest in history, and its enduring legacy.
Today people around the world are far likelier to receive a timely warning to evacuate a giant, dangerous wave. But as a Dec. 5 earthquake and (tiny) tsunami off Northern California showed ...
Roadways closest to the epicenter were full of people driving away from the coast. Tsunamis can occur when an underwater earthquake rapidly displaces massive amounts of water, leading to a large ...
Some sections of Northern California's coast are considered vulnerable to tsunamis. Here's where those locations are and how ...
Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Thousands gathered in mourning on Thursday, Dec. 26, to mark two decades since the world’s largest tsunami ... her that she had to do that," Louis said of ...
The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami left so many bodies mouldering ... modern-day Jakarta on the most populous island of Java. After World War II, Aceh was the only province the Dutch did not reoccupy ...
Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...