Japan is no stranger to seismic activity. As one of the most earthquake-prone countries on Earth, it sits atop four major ...

Tsunami Facts, Pictures, More. UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT. All across northern Japan they felt it. A violent, ... When two tectonic plates push together under the sea, ...

The anatomy of a tsunami; View photos from before and after the 2011 tsunami in Japan; The huge size of the tsunami was surprising because earthquakes around Japan are caused by tectonic plates ...

Read CNN’s Tsunami of 2004 Fast Facts and learn more about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that followed the world’s third-largest earthquake on record.

Photo by jmarti20/Pixabay June 28 (UPI) -- A large, magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck Peru early Friday morning, but authorities canceled a possible tsunami alert after a few hours.

THE seabed at the epicentre of the Asian tsunami rumpled like a carpet, images released yesterday by the Royal Navy reveal. HMS Scott, which provided the first pictures from the Indian Ocean, was ...

Now, a new study suggests that tsunami earthquakes happen when two sections of Earth's crust, called tectonic plates, get hung up on extinct volcanoes on the ocean floor, called seamounts.

So on December 5, when my phone alerted me of a potential tsunami resulting from a 7.0 earthquake in the waters of Northern California, I figured that this might finally be it.

Hello there. I just wanted 2 let you know that please stay away from the beaches all around in the month of July. There is a prediction that there will be another tsunami hitting on July 22nd. It ...

Here's why a tsunami warning was sent after a 7.0 quake in Northern California 03:18. Last Thursday's Tsunami Warning was scary for everyone who received the alert along the West Coast.

Read CNN’s Tsunami of 2004 Fast Facts and learn more about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that followed the world’s third-largest earthquake on record.