Cruise ships are generally safe during a tsunami if they are in the open ocean, as the waves remain low in deep water but ...

A powerful earthquake of 6.2 magnitude struck east of the Kuril Islands late on Friday night, as confirmed by the National ...

Hurricane Gil was classified as a storm but it has been upgraded - and, as it has now formed in the eastern Pacific, ...

Emergency managers directed Oʻahu residents in "red zones" to head inland on Tuesday as the state faced a tsunami. But ...

The bride was not prepared to walk down the aisle serenaded by sirens as the tsunami watch escalated to a tsunami warning.

One of the largest earthquakes on record struck far eastern Russia this week. The last time the region was hit by a such a ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the largest in the past century, struck off the coast of Russia this week, prompting ...

Palestine is currently designated by the UN as a “permanent observer state”, a form of non-member state, meaning it cannot vote on decisions made by the UN’s main organs and bodies, such as the ...

At 1:24 p.m. July 29, a magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. A tsunami warning was issued at 2:43 p.m. for Hawai‘i, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a forecast ...

The sixth most powerful earthquake on record triggered widespread evacuation orders across multiple countries including the ...

The world has witnessed several catastrophic earthquakes, with the 1960 Valdivia, Chile quake topping the list at magnitude 9 ...

Republicans and Democrats are heating up over attempts to redraw congressional maps. Here is the news to know on Thursday.