A powerful earthquake struck off northern Japan late Monday local time, triggering a tsunami of up to 28 inches in Pacific coast communities, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said. The agency ...

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck northern Japan, triggering tsunami warnings, Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) said on Monday. Roughly 40 minutes after the earthquake, a tsunami wave ...

About 1 hour after the earthquake, SWOT captured the offshore tsunami wave field near Kamchatka shown as two red–blue measurement swaths. These data constrained the inferred initial tsunami ...

An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, prompting countries in the region to assess a tsunami threat. New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency ...

The Japanese government has warned of a slightly heightened risk of a megaquake in the next week after a strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the country’s northeastern coast on Monday, ...

Residents of the affected region were urged to stay away from coastal areas, while tens of thousands of people were told to go to higher ground. Coverage on this live blog has ended. 'No abnormalities ...

TOKYO — A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on Monday, prompting authorities to urge residents to stay away from coastal areas where tsunami waves of up to ...

Improving tsunami hazard assessments depends on understanding what happens at the moment an earthquake ruptures beneath the seafloor, especially near deep-ocean trenches where measurements are often ...