Following the major 8.8M earthquake off the coast of Russia, tsunami alerts were issued for Hawaii, Alaska and the Continental U.S. West Coast Wednesday. Evacuations were ordered as well. And that's ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Russia's eastern coast overnight. This is the sixth strongest quake ever recorded. The first waves hit Russia and Japan, where nearly two million people were evacuated.

Tsunamis are a hazard across all three of Canada’s coastlines. The threat for these dangerous and destructive waves is greatest along the West Coast—but the Atlantic seaboard isn’t immune. Atlantic ...

The Pacific Northwest, celebrated for its forests, coffee culture, and dramatic coastlines, is sitting on a geological time bomb. Beneath the calm surface of the Pacific, the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, ...