The primary difference is the ways in which tidal waves and tsunamis are formed. Tsunamis and tidal waves have a lot in ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

The movement of the plates also caused the ocean floor to rise by 40 metres, which in turn triggered the tsunami. As giant waves of destruction headed for the coastlines of multiple countries ...

Built as part of the recovery effort, the Michinoku Trail is driving the discovery of a long-overlooked region ...

The main objective of this year's World Tsunami Awareness Day is to raise consciousness about reducing the risks created by these giant waves and improving community preparedness. Although ...

SRI LANKA, — This December marks the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in ...

Often, it is not the size of a tsunami (or indeed any natural hazard) that results in human devastation but rather where it is focused. In 1958 for example, the largest tsunami on record struck Lituya ...

The ability to monitor and analyze these massive waves in real-time has revolutionized our understanding of their behavior and impact, providing invaluable data that can inform safety protocols and ...

Now, a seismologist who was on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii when the disaster struck has revealed to Newsweek the inside story of how events played out that fateful day, as his ...