When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — On the 11-year anniversary of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) has released two new tsunami evacuation ...

May 8—The latest modeling of a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake along the West Coast suggests a more powerful tsunami and more flooding than previously expected in areas that include Skagit County.

In recent years there has been an evolution in numerical models used to compute tsunami propagation and run-up. Many models currently available offer a wide array of choices to the users. In parallel ...

A satellite has tracked a tsunami in greater detail than ever before, which could help improve models of these giant waves and allow for better prediction and warning systems. Launched in 2022 by NASA ...

That miles-wide asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago on what’s now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The study in the journal AGU Advances presents the first global simulation of the Chicxulub impact ...

PASADENA, Calif. - A joint U.S.-French ocean satellite has captured the first high-resolution images of a massive Pacific tsunami, offering scientists a rare, sweeping view of wave behavior previously ...