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On April 1, 1946, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake struck near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, triggering a tsunami that barreled across the Pacific and killed 159 people on the island of Hawaii. In the ...

A strong earthquake and several subsequent tremors rattled northern Japan on Sunday evening, triggering tsunami advisories along the coast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The earthquake ...

Nine seismic stations in Alaska are set to go dark this month, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data used to determine whether an earthquake will send a destructive wave barreling toward ...

An earthquake of 7.4 magnitude struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, and authorities issued tsunami warnings though they were later withdrawn.

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula recently triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific Ocean. It gave NASA scientists a real-world test of their new tsunami ...