Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

That evening came to mind recently as I read a New Yorker article by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, which ...

The “megathrust” earthquake’s undersea magnitude was 9.0, recorded as one of the worst in Japan’s history. It began on the Pacific seabed 45 miles away from the eastern coast of Japan, as reported by ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

Today in History for July 12: In 1191, the armies of the Third Crusade (1189-92), led by England's King Richard I (The Lionhearted), captured the Syrian seaport of Acre, now located in northern Israel ...

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Sand Point, Alaska, on Wednesday, prompting a tsunami warning from the National Weather Service.

A tsunami warning has been issued for south Alaska after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lightly populated stretch of Alaska’s southern coast was under a tsunami warning Wednesday after a ...

A doomsday tsunami is likely to strike the US in the near future, but scientists say it's better if it hits sooner rather ...

Sakhalin island is about 525 miles northeast of the Russian portof Vladivostok. In 1995, a temblor registering 7.5 occurred about 240 milesnorth of the latest earthquake.

Courtenay-Comox MLA Brennan Day is questioning the provincial health minister after an 11-year-old passed away at the Comox ...