Japan is facing the risk of a possible "megaquake" in the near future, following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that occurred off ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

The largest-ever tsunami wave was recorded in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958 following an earthquake and a colossal landslide, and towered at a whopping 1720 feet. Their wave periods—or the time ...

BRITAIN isn't known as a tsunami hotspot – but it's been struck by giant and terrifying waves. The biggest that we know of saw a wall of water 70 feet high crashing into Britain's shores.

In Thailand, for example, seismologists knew early on how big the quake was and that it ... in the 2004 event tsunami waves pummeled the Sumatran coast for 12 hours following just five minutes ...

Tsunamis are actually a series of waves, but are catagorized by the magnitude of the largest wave of the set. There are two types of tsunamis: Local and Teletsunamis. Local tsunamis are waves ...

In remembrance of the 325th anniversary of the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone lost its grip, on Jan. 26, 1700, wreaking havoc on the Oregon Coast, a wave-height rerun about the “Eight of the ...

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the tsunami waves could reach up to one metre. But the advisory issued for Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures has been lifted on Monday evening Japan time.

The biggest tsunami recorded was 1,720 feet tall on July ... one boat that powered directly up the face of the still-building wave, and another that rode it like a surfer about 80 feet above ...