Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning ...

Tsunamis don’t look the way we picture them. Most people, if they imagined one coming, would picture a towering wall of dark water. The reality is stranger and, in some ways, more terrifying: a ...

Tsunami waves hit Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast on Wednesday after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's ...

Aerial view of the August 2025 landslide and tsunami near South Sawyer Glacier in Alaska A massive 'megatsunami' wave created when part of an Alaskan mountain crumbled into the sea is the second ...

Back in August of 2025, something massive happened in Alaska. Deep in the Tracy Arm, a stunning fjord southeast of Juneau, more than two billion cubic feet of earth collapsed, falling into the ocean ...

JUNEAU, Alaska – Just last year, a massive landslide in Alaska triggered a megatsunami that researchers have now mapped and analyzed—identifying it as the second-highest tsunami wave ever recorded. In ...

South Sawyer Glacier at the end of Tracy Arm Fjord, where the second-largest tsunami on record occurred. Photo Credit: Alexandre.ROSA/Shutterstock.com A tsunami ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to New Zealand.

TOKYO—One of the world’s strongest earthquakes struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, an 8.8-magnitude temblor that set ...