Tsunami alerts across the Pacific are being downgraded after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Local authorities lifted the tsunami alert in the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia on Wednesday and said people could return to their homes, but said residents should remain ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Tsunami waves began hitting the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia early on Wednesday, but the waves were forecast to be smaller than initially feared, local authorities said. The ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka coast triggered tsunami warnings as far away as French ...

Authorities in French Polynesia warned the population of several of the Marquesas Islands to expect tsunami waves up to 4m ...

Authorities in French Polynesia warn residents of the Marquesas Islands to expect tsunami waves up to four meters high after ...

Authorities lifted the tsunami alert in French Polynesia’s Marquesas Islands but urged ongoing caution. Waves, reaching 1.50 ...

Tsunami alerts have been issued for parts of Russia, Japan, Alaska, Hawaii and the US West Coast after the earthquake struck ...

The Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji cancelled their tsunami warnings late on Wednesday night. However, much of the West Coast, spanning California, Oregon, Washington state, and the Canadian province of ...

Authorities in French Polynesia warned the population of several of the Marquesas Islands to expect tsunami waves up to 4 metres high in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a huge quake off ...

The shallow tremor off the Kamchatka Peninsula damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, ...

Memories are more recent – and much more raw – in Japan, where the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake struck with a ...