(KSWB/KUSI) — Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning, no time to run — just the rumbles of an earthquake, the ...

Dozens of earthquakes rocked the region, but a tsunami didn't seem imminent. Then the massive waves began crashing in.

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake – one of the most powerful ever recorded – struck off the coast of eastern Russia late Tuesday, causing intense shaking for minutes, rattling windows and damaging ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. No deaths have been reported from tsunami waves in ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, a magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia. Despite its remote location, the size of the quake immediately brought ...

Tsunami means “harbor wave” in Japanese, but they differ from other waves that are generated by the wind or solar system. Tsunami waves move the entire depth of the ocean, down to the floor, which is ...

State and county beaches along the Sonoma Coast were closed Saturday as a precaution in the wake of a huge earthquake off the coast of Chile, but if there was a tsunami, it wasn't noticeable. The wave ...

Last week, just after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake violently shook the eastern edge of Russia, Southern Californians were warned to gird for possible impact: a tsunami was headed across the ocean, ...

No, this wasn’t a scene from a Hollywood disaster film. It was real. On the night of July 9, 1958, along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle, nature unleashed the largest tsunami ever ...