Tsunami waves often look like walls of water ... 1883 after the explosion and collapse of the volcano of Krakatoa (Krakatau), in Indonesia. This explosion generated waves that reached 135 feet ...

The last widely devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean was that spawned by the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, which killed 36,000 people. Disaster officials in the region understandably have ...

It says the possible cause of the tsunami was undersea landslides after the Krakatoa volcano erupted. The strait, between the islands of Java and Sumatra, connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean.

The cataclysmic Hunga Tonga blast in January 2022 was the largest volcanic eruption since Krakatoa in 1883. It triggered ...

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 ...

The bureau sent a message through its app at 11.32am, warning of a tsunami threat to Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. Users in the Blue Mountains and as far away as Canberra ...

Saturday's tsunami struck at about 21:30 local time ... Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatau) is a new island that emerged in 1927 from Krakatoa volcano. In August 1883, Krakatoa underwent one ...

Some residents of eastern Australia experienced brief panic on Wednesday morning after the Bureau of Meteorology sent out a ...

A senior BOM spokesman has fronted a video to apologise for confusion after the bureau sent out a “tsunami alert” as part of its testing of a new system. The BOM reiterated there was no ...

As the tsunami rocked back and forth in the fjord, the impacts were strong enough to ripple through the Earth's crust and register as a single frequency hum that seismologists initially ...

People with the Bureau of Meteorology app received warnings about the possibility of a tsunami impacting the nearby area. Credit: @JohnDean/X Tsunami warnings appeared on the phones of many ...

A tsunami is a series of waves generated by the sudden movement of the ocean surface, usually because of earthquakes under the sea floor. Tsunamis can also result from underwater landslides ...