The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.

A7.7 magnitude earthquake has shaken Myanmar and has been strongly felt in other countries such as Thailand and China, among others. Hundreds of people have been injured and many o ...

From shortly after World War II until the 1970s ... Google Maps Japan's recent tsunami warning, which called for the evacuation of the southern prefecture of Okinawa's coastal areas, was issued ...

Deep in Southeast Asia, Myanmar sits on a geological fault line that makes it highly vulnerable to earthquakes. Located along ...

The French Riviera, with its serene Mediterranean Sea that often resembles a tranquil lake, might seem like an unlikely place for a tsunami. While the region of Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Tsunamis can cause immense physical damage to ports, but the economic cost does not stop there. The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in ...

In Japan, some tsunami waves reached as far as three miles inland. Japan may be the most seismologically studied country in the world, and with more than 1200 high precision GPS stations ...

There are a number of scenarios where California could get hours of lead time ahead of a damaging tsunami. But should a quake strike close to shore, there could be little to no warning. Tsunami ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency says Japanese coasts will not see any tsunami possibly triggered by a large volcanic eruption ...

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The active volcano Sofugan is located near the epicenters of the recent series of quakes. An eruption of the underwater volcano or magma movement might be behind the Oct. 9 tsunami. “There is ...