NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...

The agency started updating California's tsunami danger maps after 2011's Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami in Japan that ...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the Pacific Ocean near Panama's Coiba Island, causing significant tremors in parts of ...

Hawaii faces a major tsunami risk, but 24/7 monitoring and evacuation plans help keep residents safe. Learn how experts track ...

The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps published by the California Geological Survey, illustrate the devastation ...

Risk is very real—5 counties most at risk from a tsunami. Could a large tsunami happen in the United States? The USGS ...

A strong earthquake off Panama’s Pacific coast has shaken the central part of the country, but it has gone largely unnoticed in the capital.

After the 1960 Chilean tsunami, which left a trail of death and damage as far away as Japan, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) stepped in to set up the Pacific Ocean ...

The quake occurred about 78 km (45 miles) southwest of Coiba—a national park and former penal colony—at a shallow depth of 10 ...

Ultra-stable laser technology is being used to detect earthquakes in the Southwest Pacific thanks to an inventive method ...

A massive tsunami sparked by the huge Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 sent nearly 300 living Japanese coastal marine species on a six-year journey across the Pacific Ocean, leading to a transoceanic ...

offering guests views of the Pacific Ocean and the nearby Sannoiwa Rocks. However, on March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake unleashed a devastating tsunami that irrevocably altered the l ...