A tsunami originating from a landslide set off seismic waves that were detected across the world. The phenomenon, which ...

More than 25 million cubic yards of rock and ice broke loose and plunged into Greenland's Dickson Fjord, creating a ...

For centuries, the myth of the 100-foot wave was just that — a myth told ... t understand how these things really work. (See pictures of tsunami striking South Pacific in 2009.) ...

The biggest ... that had been propelling the wave forward has nowhere to go but up, so the wave grows taller. Unlike the waves we enjoy at the beach, tsunami waves don’t break because they ...

The kick-off is akin to dropping a big rock in a children's pool ... died after he was swept away by a second wave while taking pictures of the Japan tsunami, Lopes said. Tsunamis race across ...

Although that shaking caused little major damage — the biggest tsunami wave it produced would have risen up to your knee — it wasn’t the main worry. Rather, seismologists were concerned that ...

The color-coded map shows the potential tsunami height across the region, with some areas facing waves as high as 20 meters, or approximately 65 feet. The areas most at risk are marked as yellow ...

creating waves that spread out. The size of the tsunami is determined by how much the ocean floor moves, the area affected, and the depth of the water where it originated. The biggest tsunami ever ...