An area near Petersville, Alaska, was hit with a 4.6 earthquake on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. Newsweek reached out to the USGS's Earthquake Hazards Program via email ...

Dave Snider, Warning Coordinator with the Tsunami Warning Center, says Alaska got lucky after the magnitude 8.8 earthquake ...

Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami across the Pacific faded Wednesday after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck ...

A powerful earthquake off Russia’s east coast triggered tsunami waves across the Pacific, prompting alerts in Hawaii and ...

A massive 8.7-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings across Japan and the USA, ...

A proposed early warning system for earthquakes would have given Gulf of Alaska towns a lot more notice of the strong shaking that resulted from the 7.3 magnitude earthquake last ...

Tsunami warnings have been issued in several countries after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, with ...

But the danger appeared to be waning in some places, with the US state of Hawaii and Japan downgrading their warnings.

Hours after a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the Russian coast, becoming one of the strongest tremors ever ...

This geological event caused approximately 40 million cubic yards of rock to crash into the narrow fjord of Lituya Bay, ...