The quake comes days after an 8.8-magnitude tremor in the region triggered tsunami alerts across Asia and the Pacific ...

Large distant earthquakes in the past have generated tsunamis that caused significant damage and deaths in Hawaii. In 1946, a ...

Russian agencies have warned a new powerful earthquake near the Pacific's Kuril Islands could trigger a tsunami wave up to 19 ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- There is no tsunami threat for Hawaii after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported in the Kuril Islands. The earthquake hit Russia's Kuril Islands at 7:37 p.m. HST on Aug. 2 ...

Local seismographs registered the energy associated with the shockwave from one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded.

The largest tsunami to hit the US was in 1958, striking Lituya Bay, Alaska — a sparsely populate area — which was triggered by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that caused a massive landslide into the bay, ...

Russia's Krasheninnikov volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula erupted for the first time in centuries, possibly triggered by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake, causing ash plumes and brief tsunami warnings.

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A volcano on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted overnight into Sunday for what scientists said is the first time in hundreds of years, days after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake.

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East, sending tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the U.S ...

The National Hurricane Centre earlier confirmed that a tropical storm, which briefly transformed into a hurricane, is lurking outside of the US - with forecasters hoping it will weaken later this week ...