Tsunami waves begin hitting Hawaii after a 8.8 earthquake near Russia. Kristy McNichol Now: Why the 'Family' Star Left ...

Earthquakes and tsunamis remain among the most devastating natural disasters on the planet, especially for countries located ...

The magnitude 8.8 quake is believed to be the joint sixth-largest on record, though only minor injuries near the epicenter ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula Tuesday triggered tsunami waves across the ...

After an 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the eastern Russian coast sparked tsunami warnings throughout the Pacific, millions of ...

The Northwest is itself overdue for a megaquake — one we are ready for on neither a personal nor political level.

A massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck Russia’s Kuril Islands on Sunday, sending tremors across the ...

It seems that for the size of the earthquake, the tsunami has been rather small. To understand why, we can look to geology.

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The ...

A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has triggered tsunami warnings from Japan to Hawaii, with ...

The Earth’s crust is made of rock that is very hard and brittle at the small scale and near the surface. But over very large ...