A dramatic transformation is taking place in the South Pacific, where a newly formed volcanic island is emerging from the ...

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea has placed Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands under a tsunami advisory.

For months, experts were at a loss as to what caused the tsunami observed over a wide stretch of the Pacific Ocean in October last year. No major earthquakes were detected that day. But the Japan ...

CANNON BEACH Ore. (KPTV) – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the Northern California coast caused a tsunami warning in parts of Oregon Thursday. The event, which occurred at approximately 10:45 a.m ...

Within weeks of the Indian Ocean tsunami, President Bush ordered that 32 additional such buoys be added to the Pacific as well as to the Atlantic and Caribbean (neither of which currently has a ...

A team of scientists in Switzerland have discovered “mysterious spots”, which they dubbed as a “sunken world”, deep in the bosom of the Pacific Ocean. According to the scientists ...

Japan extended a tsunami advisory for more coastal regions along Pacific Ocean on Monday after issuing it to the two island areas south of Tokyo. The advisory is in effect as far southwest as the ...

The disaster was made worse by the fact that the Indian Ocean had no tsunami early warning system, in contrast to the Pacific, which has had one for 40 years. The need for such a system was well ...

The strong tremor took place at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), EMSC said, and about 163 km (100 miles) west-northwest of Valdivia in the Pacific Ocean.