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New Zealand emergency management teams took part in Exercise Pacific Wave, a nationwide simulation testing tsunami warnings, ...

Some 66 million years ago, a 6-mile-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near what today is Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, wiping out much of the planet’s life. The impact left a crater 110 miles wide and 12 ...

Residents along the West Coast were left shaken when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rattled the region last week, resulting in a tsunami warning and a scary couple of hours for more than 5 million people.

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A clip from the University of South Alabama's Summer Engineering Academy has gone viral on the social media platform TikTok. According to university administrators, rising 10th ...

CANNON BEACH, Ore. -- With just a click on the computerized map of Cannon Beach, the numbers start rolling. Seconds fly by, then minutes. More numbers roll over so fast they can barely be read, but ...

A chilling new simulation shows how a massive megathrust earthquake could unleash a devastating tsunami on the West Coast. The canimation from cutawaynature’s Instagram account shows what happens deep ...

A simulation released by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) shows the impact of a 7.5-magnitude earthquake on the Seattle Fault. “Tsunami waves could be as high as 42 feet at ...

The alert at 4am set in motion Exercise Pacific Wave - a nationwide simulation to test how emergency management communicates and makes decisions in the event of a tsunami threat.