One of the most powerful earthquakes in modern history shook Russia’s remote east coast Wednesday, sending tsunami waves hurtling across the Pacific Ocean and putting nations from Japan to the United ...

When tsunami monitoring centers issue early warnings about waves ... This network of deep-sea buoys across the Pacific and, later, globally, measure changes in ocean pressure in real time, allowing ...

On April 1, 1946, the magnitude 8.6 Aleutian Islands earthquake in the northern Pacific Ocean generated a tsunami that devastated parts of Hawaii hours later, leading to 146 fatalities.

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...

A tsunami warning issued for Hawaii after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, an 8.8 magnitude in Russia's Far ...

Here’s the Scoop: NBC News meteorologist Bill Karins explains how an earthquake near Russia left people in Hawaii and along the west coast of the U.S. with tsunami warnings. Listen to today’s ...

One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific as far south as New Zealand.

The huge earthquake in eastern Russian generated the threat of a tsunami along with lots of anxiety among coastal dwellers in Southern California.

When an enormous 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the impact reached far beyond its ...

It could take hours for tsunamis to cross the Pacific Ocean. The speed of tsunami waves also depends on ocean depth. They travel faster over deep water and slow down in shallow water.