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 ...

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 ...

Tsunamis are actually a series of waves, but are catagorized by the magnitude of the largest wave of the set. There are two types of tsunamis: Local and Teletsunamis. Local tsunamis are waves ...

The tsunami induced by the Great East Japan Earthquake ... Immediately after the quake, some local governments used the imperative form such as “Flee!” to evacuate the residents through ...

Tsunamis are often referred to as "tidal waves" because when approaching land, they look like a tide which suddenly rushes away and crashes back in a form of a huge wave. But tsunamis - the ...

Deputy Director-General, Managing Director, Dr. Create tsunami-resilient communities through an early warning and tsunami observation network In Japan, higher tsunamis than those envisaged in each of ...