Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

Around 250 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out more than 90% of life – and it all began in the water. You’re probably thinking it was a tsunami, a devastating natural disaster ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

A species of clam discovered in Funakoshi Bay, Iwate Prefecture, after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster was judged to have been 135 years old when it died, ranking it as among the oldest ...

An 1812 earthquake near Santa Barbara triggered a tsunami that destroyed coastal villages. Ancient lore tells of a California mega-tsunami in 1700 that left canoes dry in the trees. And as ...

This extraordinary series of over 1,200 earthquakes, which experts feared could end in a massive quake and tsunami, brought alive her 25 years of research on ancient tsunamis and seismic events in the ...

Gelfenbaum G. and Jaffe B. 2003. Erosion and Sedimentation from the 17 July, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami. Pure and Applied Geophysics 160:1969–1999. Goodman ...

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

Future research would involve digging on the Falklands to try to find deposits from ancient tsunami. “You maybe even want to sample the drift to see what it consists of, what the shear strength ...

A new international collaboration is surveying ancient landslide sites in two deep undersea canyons to better understand New ...