While tsunamis are extremely rare along Connecticut's shoreline, their smaller counterparts called meteotsunamis are much more common. While tsunamis are triggered by undersea earthquakes, ...

A traffic police officer in Peru sets up a roadblock during a tsunami warning in La Punta, Callao province on July 30, 2025. Alerts were issued in countries across the Pacific, following a massive 8.8 ...

The 2025 Kamchatka 8.8 earthquake could have been a global catastrophe. Instead, its weaker-than-expected tsunami gave ...

Earthquakes can also occur within a single tectonic plate, thus occurring on land rather than at sea. Since earthquakes ...

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula sent a wave of water racing at the speed of a jetliner toward Hawaii, California and Washington state, spurring warnings and alarm ...

Tsunami alerts lit up Siri Zama's phone on Tuesday. The 28-year-old high school teacher in Kapolei, Hawaii, fled inland. "It was raining, and the clouds got real dark. It was just a little scary. I ...