Tag: tsunami

Most waves form due to winds or tides, but tsunamis have a different cause altogether.

Imagine the biggest wave you can imagine. Now make it bigger.

The suspected 9.5 earthquake took place in Chile and would have created huge tsunamis.

A tsunami-devastated region has a long historical precedent.

Lightning may not strike two times in the same place -- but tsunami sure does.

This means a couple of extra seconds which could make all the difference in a life or death situation.

Ironically, pollution helped some creatures this time.

Can't have a devastating water wave without water!

Fus-ro-dah!

Indonesian authorities lifted a tsunami warning issued after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the island of Sumatra - the ...

It's not just the San Andreas fault - a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research reports that ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake (initially 6.9) has struck Northern Japan earlier today, with a small tsunami striking the coast without any ...

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck deep beneath the ocean floor near Alaska's Aleutian islands, triggering a small tsunami. The ...

As bad as earthquakes can be, and we've recently had our fair share of earthquakes around the world, the tsunamis ...

A massive earthquake struck Wednesday east of Kira Kira in the Solomon Islands, with several already confirmed victims and injuries. ...

If you think about tsunamis, you'll probably think about Japan, Indonesia, maybe America... the last place you'd image would be ...

You probably remember the massive 9.1 earthquake that struck Japan last year and the subsequent problems that followed - most ...

This summer Japan was hit by a tremendous 9.0 Richter scale earthquake, which generated one of the most powerful tsunamis ...

In the first ever-survey of its kind, geologists have managed to discover a chain of massive underwater volcanoes, some as ...

Japan's nuclear crisis level has been regulated from level 5 to 7  by the International Atomic Energy Agency, at the ...

There's been a lot of fuss around tsunamis lately, especially seen as Japan, perhaps the most prepared country in the ...

As the nuclear situation at the Fukushima power plant continues to deteriorate, engineers start to ponder drastic options more and ...

The 9.0 (it seems this is the actual magnitude) earthquake that hit Japan on the 11th of March created an ...

The sad loss of over 10.000 people caused by the M8.9 earthquake and the tsunamis it generated is not the ...

A National Geographic documentary is on the lookout for the mysterious lost city of Atlantic.

In the aftermath of the earthquake that violently struck Japan and the tsunamis it generated, the small, industrial city of ...

In its wake, the Japan 8.9 Richter scale devastating earthquake and the huge tsunami that was produced by it left ...

As a consequence of last Friday's devastating earthquake near the coast of Japan, the nation's most powerful recorded earthquake to ...

This picture, created by a computer model at NOAA displays the expected heights of the tsunamis created by the 8.9 ...

If you're looking for an easy to understand scientific explanation about the formation of the devastating quake and tsunami that ...

The recent tsunami wave that hit the Japanese coast this Friday simply devastated the countries costal areas. Besides the actual ...

In the wake of Japan's most devastating recorded earthquake to date, the nation of the rising sun is still left ...

The damage caused by the 8.9 earthquake in Japan is far from being over - asa matter of fact, unfortunately, ...

The earthquake that occured yesterday near the coast of Japan, the 4th most powerful earthquake ever to be recorded, is ...

The earthquake that struck Japan is much worse than original estimates ! The original 7.9 magnitude actually just got upgraded ...

It's been a busy tectonic month, and things aren't about to chill down. A massive 7.9 magnitude Earthquake has just ...

Dr. Beverly Goodman of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa was doing some ...

In case you don't know, a tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as ...

People, as a society, find it hard to learn from their mistakes. Since the tragic events caused by tsunamis we ...