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 ...

New images from a NASA satellite are giving scientists a view of tsunamis that they have never had before, revealing intricate structures in the open ocean that were previously invisible. Instead of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.