Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

There is an unprecedented surge of newly defined contribution plans—especially 401 (k)s. According to a Cerulli report, it’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Thursday morning in Humboldt County prompted a tsunami warning across the Northern California coast into Oregon. In the San ...

Farther north, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake off the coast triggered a tsunami warning for parts of California and Oregon in early December. A tsunami didn’t come then, but the region’s proximity ...

Japan’s position along the “Ring of Fire”, a string of hundreds of volcanoes and earthquake sites in the Pacific Ocean, makes it vulnerable to frequent earthquakes. Here is how.

A tsunami is a series of waves generated by the sudden movement of the ocean surface, usually because of earthquakes under the sea floor. Tsunamis can also result from underwater landslides ...