Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

In Alaska, a federal grant that funded seismic data collection in order to warn people about tsunamis is being cancelled. Experts say cuts like this could make tsunami warnings less reliable.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake centered in the Pacific Ocean some 45 miles west of Misawa, Japan, shook the northern region of the archipelago around 11:26 p.m. local time, Monday. Japan's government ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck of the northeast coast of Japan late Monday. Thereafter, a tsunami of 50 cm was ...

The Surface Water Ocean Topography satellite captured high resolution measurements of this summer’s Pacific tsunami. The ...

WASHINGTON — A NASA satellite captured the first detailed, overhead view of a giant Pacific tsunami, and scientists are now sharing how it offers a new look at how tsunamis move across the ocean. In a ...