While that remains true, tsunamis and tidal waves differ in major ways, including in their formation ... The largest-ever tsunami wave was recorded in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958 following ...

People in high-risk tsunami areas could soon be helped by an early-warning alarm system using sound waves that is being developed by scientists. Mathematicians think they have devised a way of ...

"The wave came in and just took her, it just took her away." On Boxing Day 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that raced towards shorelines around the Indian Ocean. Twenty years ...

An initial tsunami wave approximately 1 meter (3.2 feet) high made landfall within 30 minutes of the earthquake, the Associated Press reported, citing Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV.

You know, I think a lot of us have a lot of wrong notions about what a tsunami looks like. You know, in the films, it looks like this giant wave, and it's actually much more like a wall of water.

8, 1817, according to newspapers of the time. Turns out, that tidal wave was actually a tsunami, launched by a powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake that struck at about 4:30 a.m. ET near the northern ...