Sep. 12, 2024 — A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout ...

Some events can cast long shadows. The UK is still talking about the storm of 1987 (‘the worst night since the Blitz’), the winter of 1963, the storm floods of 1953, the London smog of ...

SRI LANKA, — This December marks the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

Now, a seismologist who was on duty at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii when the disaster struck has revealed to Newsweek the inside story of how events played out that fateful day, as his ...

TSUNAMI: RACE AGAINST TIME is a four-part documentary series providing a 360-degree view into the heart-stopping events of ...

Marking 20 years since one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, Nat Geo's "Tsunami: Race Against Time," tells the ...

Super Typhoon Maner has left a trail of devastation across the Philippines over the weekend. At least eight people have been killed, and many communities are in ruins after the powerful storm swept ...

The Indian Ocean tsunami which unexpectedly hit Asia on December 26th, 2004, caused devastation across a dozen countries ...

Often, it is not the size of a tsunami (or indeed any natural hazard) that results in human devastation but rather where it is focused. In 1958 for example, the largest tsunami on record struck Lituya ...

A massive wildfire fueled by Santa Ana winds had destroyed dozens of homes and property in the Camarillo and Somis areas of Ventura County, California. The fire started around 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 6 ...

UN Photo/Evan Schneider: The Indian Ocean Tsunami in December 2004 caused vast destruction on the Indonesian coast between the towns of Banda Aceh and Meulaboh. “This year marks the 20th ...