New satellite images are helping scientists understand a major tsunami that changed the landscape of a popular tourist ...

If you’re one of the roughly 1.6 million people who took a cruise in Alaska last year, chances are you sailed through the Tracy Arm fjord. The picturesque, narrow fjord is a popular sightseeing area ...

Over 25 million cubic yards of rock and ice broke loose and plunged into Greenland's Dickson Fjord, creating a 650-foot-high ...

The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska last August, leaving ...

A three-meter (9.8-foot) tsunami warning was issued for Japan on Monday after a strong 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency and the ...

The official launch of Samoa’s Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme was honoured by the presence of the Honourable Prime Minister of the Independent State of Samoa, Hon. Laʻaulialemalietoa Leuatea ...

By chance a tour boat avoided a deadly tsunami set off by the retreat of Alaska's coastal glaciers. Scientists are working to spot landslides like the one that caused the massive wave to warn people i ...

A tsunami in Alaska's Tracy Arm Fjord in 2025, triggered by a landslide, became the second largest ever recorded. The initial wave was 100 meters high and stripped vegetation up to 1,578 feet high.

It was the second highest tsunami ever recorded on Earth,” says Aram Fathian, a researcher at the University of Calgary and co-author of a recent Science study that reconstructed this event in detail.

On the evening of Aug. 9, 2025, passengers on the Hanse Explorer finished taking selfies and videos of the South Sawyer Glacier, and the ship headed back down the fjord. Twelve hours later, a ...

Scientists and UNESCO warn that parts of France and Spain could face fast moving tsunami waves from the Mediterranean with very little warning.