We're going to spend a few minutes now trying to understand the natural disaster, a tsunami, that struck Indonesia overnight. It hit between Java and Sumatra, the two most-populous islands in the ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Here in Kern County, we’re pretty used to earthquakes — but tsunamis are something different. With these recent events happening across the world, I wanted to learn more ...

They may be relatively rare, but they rank among nature’s most destructive forces. This week, we’re exploring the science behind tsunamis. * The word itself means “harbor wave” in Japanese, and it’s ...

A 1,000-foot tsunami crashing into the U.S. might sound like science fiction — but scientists say it’s a very real possibility. In fact, it’s already happened once in 1958, when a wave over 1,700 feet ...

On Wednesday morning (local time), an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast of eastern Russia. It was the sixth strongest earthquake on record! The great earthquake triggered tsunami ...

SAN DIEGO — A tsunami is triggered by a massive amount of energy being struck into the ocean, said a San Diego geology expert, weighing in after Tuesday's powerful earthquake in Russia. "It could be ...

You might think that when a tsunami takes place, such a huge wave would be obvious, but the sea can be mysterious, the kind of enigma that HP Lovecraft once wrote about when he penned a line about the ...

ATLANTA — A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula late Monday, triggering a tsunami that surged across the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami alerts stretched from Japan to ...

Tsunamis are a hazard across all three of Canada’s coastlines. The threat for these dangerous and destructive waves is greatest along the West Coast—but the Atlantic seaboard isn’t immune. Atlantic ...

Today, July 30, 2025 a powerful undersea earthquake near the Kuril Islands off the Russian coast triggered tsunami alerts across the Pacific, placing regions such as Hawaii and coastal California on ...