Alerts for a potential tsunami were issued for coastlines in North America, Hawaii, Russia and Japan after a powerful ...

Arresting images have emerged of cruise line passengers apparently being abandoned in Hawaii as the vessel frantically leaves ...

An earthquake off the east coast of Russia has led to tsunami alerts across a number of countries in Asia and the Americas.

It seems that for the size of the earthquake, the tsunami has been rather small. To understand why, we can look to geology.

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...