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.

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.

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.

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.

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Researchers propose a mechanism that may cause the largest tsunami - a "popping up" of wedges of sediment, even from comparatively small earthquakes.

A sonar image taken by the Royal Navy and enhanced in 3-D shows how the two tectonic plates collided and caused the devastating tsunami that surged across the Indian Ocean, killing thousands in Asia ...

Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate to another; ... Photos: Tsunami Debris & Trash on Hawaii's Beaches. Images: Tsunami Dock in Remote Washington.

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.