Tsunamis pose a risk to the entirety of the California coast. But should a major one strike, how bad could it be?

This event in the Pacific Northwest could cause an unprecedented rise in sea levels that can displace land and water, sinking three major cities.

A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he ...

The highest active volcano in Europe, Mount Etna is a magnificent landmark on the Italian island of Sicily. Etna is almost ...

Welcome to your weekly seismic update from across the state, brought to you by the. Over the past week, we recorded about 300 earthquakes. The largest was ...

The earthquake was centered near Skwentna at a depth of 15.2 kilometers (about 9.4 miles). The USGS said it received 449 ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault ...

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

Residents learned about FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program and picked up free sandbags and weather alert radios at a ...

NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks to create a powerful, web-based tool that will show the ...

Never in the history of the Swiss Alps has a glacier caused such destruction as the one that collapsed in stunning fashion on ...

Oregon’s Department of Emergency Management hosted the first of a series of Tsunami 101 presentations at the Pine Grove ...