Tsunamis have hit Washington and the Puget Sound region in the past, and they will happen again in the future.

However, a megaquake in Nankai Trench could be even more devastating than the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake - the most powerful ...

The U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) insists that earthquake forecasting is not possible. Thus, the agency only calculates the ...

The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history.

An urgent tsunami alert has been issued for Papua New Guinea after an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale - the US Geological Survey warned of large three-metre waves ...

The Great Tohoku Earthquake struck Japan on March 11, 2011, with a magnitude of 9.1 that also triggered a catastrophic tsunami that hit within 30 minutes of the quake. The tsunami disabled three ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5. off the coast of Chile near Valdivia and Puerto Montt area.

Even more astonishing are the “big ones,” such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, with over 227,000 fatalities, or the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which was the world’s costliest ...