The Cascadia Subduction Zone runs approximately 600 to 700 miles just offshore, extending from northern California, through ...

A rare SWOT pass mapped a Pacific tsunami in detail, exposing hidden wave complexity and showing why forecasting models need a major update.

The death toll from floods and landslides triggered by Cyclone Ditwah rose sharply to 334 on Sunday, Sri Lanka's disaster agency said on Sunday, with many more still missing.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call it "home." ...

A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami in late July.

Two strong earthquakes struck Japan Tuesday at magnitudes of 5.4 and 4.7, according to data from the United States Geological ...

Tsunami warnings for Oregonians will remain unaffected, for now, after an Alaska earthquake center decided to backfill federal cuts to an alert system that helps Pacific coast states, including Oregon ...

Niigata’s governor has approved the restart of Tepco’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa unit 6, which has been closed since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Jim Wilson, retired longtime publisher of the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, died Friday morning at home in Hilo. He was 92. Wilson ...

A UC San Diego seismologist has won an award often called the "Nobel Prize of supercomputing" for developing a tsunami forecasting system.

TOKYO (AP) — Ryuichi Ichinokawa’s life could be right out of the movie “Rental Family” as the founder nearly two decades ago ...

Japanese local authorities approved the restart of the world's biggest nuclear plant on Friday for the first time since the ...