A powerful tsunami seen from space is overturning what scientists thought they knew about how these waves travel.

Scientists have unveiled breakthroughs in earthquake and tsunami monitoring, from advanced modeling in Italy’s volatile Campi Flegrei to satellite detection of tsunami waves off Kamchatka. These ...

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 ...

On July 29, 2025, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake shook the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, generating a tsunami that propagated across the Pacific. Thanks to a timely pass by the SWOT ...

This Collection invites submissions on the latest research in tsunami modelling and risk assessment, including multidisciplinary and integrative studies. We will consider original contributions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

USC researchers found that large earthquake-generated tsunamis emerge after horizontal oceanic water movement is transferred to uplift in the tsunami excitation zone, the outer wedge of sediment ...