If you see the ocean receding unusually rapidly or far it's a good sign that a big wave is on its way. Go to high ground immediately. Many people were killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami because ...

Buck's children's book The Big Wave — a story of a tsunami and its aftermath, set in Japan.

The worst big wave to strike the U.S. was a 1946 tsunami caused by a magnitude of 8.1 earthquake near Unimak Islands, Alaska, that killed 165 people, mostly in Hawaii. In 1960, a magnitude 9.5 ...

Meteotsunamis are small, but they can have outsized effects. Unlike a regular tsunami, a meteotsunami’s wave is just a foot or two high. And while undersea earthquakes cause regular tsunamis ...