A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea, prompting a tsunami warning for waves of 1 to 3 meters along the ...

UNESCO is the UN Agency in charge of ocean science. With its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission joined by 150 Member States, and its expertise in the culture and education fields, UNESCO ...

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A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck 160km northwest of Snares Islands at 2.43pm. The tsunami risk is being assessed by the ...

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand's South Island, prompting warnings of potential tsunami threats.

The March 11 earthquake and tsunami left more than 28,000 dead or missing. See incredible footage of the tsunami swamping cities and turning buildings into rubble. All across northern Japan they ...

In a few hours, the alert was withdrawn — causing many Californians to dismiss the warning’s validity altogether. And while there is an “imperfect science” behind tsunami warnings, experts said they ...

Could the Recent Pacific Megaquakes Trigger a West Coast Temblor? A series of major earthquakes have struck beneath the Pacific Ocean in less than a year and a half. Could the U.S. west coast be ...

USC researchers found that large earthquake-generated tsunamis emerge after horizontal oceanic water movement is transferred to uplift in the tsunami excitation zone, the outer wedge of sediment ...