A 1,000-foot tsunami striking the U.S. sounds like science fiction — but it’s not. In 1958, a wave over 1,700 feet tall reshaped Alaska’s Lituya Bay. Now, scientists warn it could happen again. This ...

A new tool that assesses the level of danger posed by tsunamis in real-time has been made operational on a global scale.

The hulking rock, called Maka Lahi, is the size of a two-story house and sits on a 120-foot-tall cliff, covered in vegetation ...

A tsunami has hit Tonga's largest island, Tongatapu, and reportedly sent waves flooding into the capital after an underwater volcano in the South Pacific exploded in a violent eruption on ...

The Tonga underwater volcanic eruption rivaled the strength of the largest U.S. nuclear bomb and produced a "mega-tsunami" nearly the height of a 30-story skyscraper, a recent study finds.

A detailed simulation of underwater shockwaves changes what we know about the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption. By Rahul Rao Published Apr 14, 2023 2:00 PM EDT ...

First images of Tonga volcano devastation 00:17. A powerful underwater earthquake struck Friday off Tonga in the southern Pacific, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami advisory that was later ...

LONDON -- A tsunami alert has now been lifted after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the tiny Pacific island nation of Tonga. The quake hit at sea just before 11 p.m. local time ...

On January 15th, 2022, a submerged volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga, creating a terrifying tsunami wave roughly the height of the Statue of Liberty, according to the results of a new study ...

The tsunami wave created by the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Ha'apai volcano in January 2022 reached 90 meters in height, new research has found.

The initial tsunami wave created by the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in January 2022 reached 90 metres in height, around nine times taller than that from the ...

Using data from the eruption of the underwater volcano near Tonga in 2022, researchers used disturbances in Earth's upper atmosphere to track the airwaves that cause tsunami. Their findings may ...