Tsunami warnings have been issued in regions across the Pacific, including Hawaii, Alaska, Russia and Japan, following a magnitude 8.8 "megaquake" — the joint-sixth largest ever recorded — that hit ...

Here's what we know about what caused the earthquake off Russia's Far East and why the tsunami it generated weren't as big as anticipated. The aerial view of the city of Severo-Kurilsk shows flooding ...

A long-dormant volcano has erupted on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula just days after a magnitude 8.8 megaquake rocked the region on July 30. It is the second volcano to blow its top in the region in the ...

When a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, NASA and CNES’s SWOT satellite captured a rare and detailed picture of the tsunami that followed. Recorded just over an ...

Loÿc Vanderkluysen, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a July 30 Live Science article about a recent 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia’s Far East Kamchatka ...