IT starts with a glimmer in the sky – just a pinprick of light, barely distinguishable from the stars. But this is no distant celestial body – this is a massive 2,560-foot-wide ...

A dramatic transformation is taking place in the South Pacific, where a newly formed volcanic island is emerging from the ...

Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes ...

After a series of earthquakes rocked California last week, a scientist has warned that the Golden State isn't the only area ...

In late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, raising concerns of an imminent volcanic eruption or tsunami.

Tsunamis can be triggered as secondary disasters following megathrust earthquakes, with their intensity largely dependent on the magnitude of shallow seismic ruptures. Historically, considerable ...

Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...

A week ago, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Caribbean Sea. More than 44 million people live in the Caribbean region and population centers are vulnerable to strong shaking.

Three of plant’s six reactors were operating when a tsunami caused by a massive earthquake hit on ... after TEPCO began ...

INCOIS was chosen from 297 entries for its exemplary role in developing and maintaining Tsunami and other Ocean Hazard Early Warning Systems. INCOIS is a Tsunami Service Provider (TSP) under the ...

The Trump administration has told the federal government’s ocean and atmosphere scientists to stop their international work.

‘Santorini has started ringing bells, we may have a small explosion and a tsunami,’ he said, warning if an eruption occurs, the volcano could collapse into the sea and push out tsunamis.