HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi is no stranger to the ocean’s power. Most people know tsunamis as towering waves caused by earthquakes far across the Pacific. What many do not know is that the islands ...

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Sept. 18 off Russia's Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region briefly triggered a tsunami advisory for Alaska's Aleutian Islands. However, the advisory for Alaska has ...

Move over earthquakes, tsunamis have taken center stage. I will acknowledge the largest magnitude earthquake since 2011, but the Kamchatka M8.8 did little shaking damage and the tsunami was the bigger ...

I watched the local effects of the recent tsunami spawned by the 8.8 megaquake off the coast of Russia with a practiced eye and it played out just as I expected. I have some experience as a boat ...

The computer is faster than one million smartphones, and it does 1.74 quintillion calculations per second. The lab worked with the University of Texas, Austin and UC San Diego on the project. The ...

The tsunami generated by the July 29 M 8.8 earthquake near Kamchatka demonstrates why Crescent City has earned the title “tsunami magnet.” By 7 P.M. PDT on July 30, the tsunami warning centers in ...

When 4-foot tsunami waves crashed into the Crescent City Harbor in rural Northern California last week, the dock nearest the harbor’s entrance — which was designed to absorb the brunt of the surge ...

Patrick David Sharrocks receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, grant number NE/S007458/1. On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka ...

The sixth-strongest earthquake ever recorded triggered waves several feet high hurtling towards coastal areas worldwide. Countries in and around the Pacific Ocean announced varying degrees of alerts ...

Many in Waikiki didn’t listen to evacuation orders during Tuesday's tsunami warning, putting themselves and others in danger. Elected officials from Waikiki and Kakaako say Tuesday’s traffic gridlock ...