A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days, a new study has shown. The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak last September caused ...

If the landslide at the Barry Arm fjord collapses, its falling ice and rock could generate a devastating 650-foot-high tsunami Darren Orf To live during an age of rapid climate change is to be ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.

This disaster led to the creation of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in 1949 to prevent future tragedies. The 1946 Alaskan earthquake remains one of the most significant seismic events in U.S ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

Regular tsunamis are destructive, but mega tsunamis are on another level. Could one really reach skyscraper heights? How are they formed, and what would happen if the biggest one ever hit?