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 Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, one of the deadliest events in recorded history, was an enigma to many survivors.

More than 230,000 people died after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the sea in northern Indonesia caused waves that travelled up to 500mph (805km/h). But a tsunami is not just a big wave - there ...

It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest waves hitting Tohoku, a region in north Japan, where 33-foot-high waves hit the city of Sendai. The tsunami caused a major incident at the ...

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 ...