More than 18,000 people died in the 2011 Japan tsunami, but worse disasters may be waiting to happen. Experts examine the possibility of a tsunami washing over the planet and investigate a fault ...

Japan’s 2011 tsunami affected both the rich coastal ecosystems of northeastern Japan and the local communities reliant upon them. The destruction to the landscape wreaked by the tsunami that ...

Something incredible happened in Greenland in 2023, when a mountaintop collapsed into the sea, triggering a mega-tsunami about 200 metres (650 feet) tall. The giant wave was so strong that it ...

The event was eventually traced to a colossal rockslide that triggered a mega-tsunami, researchers from University College London (UCL) and others have found, which they say is directly linked to ...

The peak – comprising of 25 million cubic metres of rock – collapsed into the remote Dickson fjord in eastern Greenland on September 16, 2023, sparking a 200m “mega-tsunami” – one of the ...

(CNN) — It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. Then came something inexplicable: a ...

A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days, a new study has shown. The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak last September caused water ...

Scientists say that 73,000 years ago, a large flank (or slope) from the volcanic island Fogo in the Cape Verde islands off the coast of Africa fell into the ocean and triggered a tsunami that ...