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

New details about the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid - the one which wiped out the dinosaurs - have been revealed after researchers created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor. Around 66 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study by Greek scientists has warned of the possibility of a tsunami occurring in the central Aegean between Santorini ...

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 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 ...

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

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