Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

A new era in tsunami observation arrived July 29, 2025, when the NASA-CNES Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite happened to be passing over the Pacific Ocean just as a strong 8.8 ...

The fresh, detailed glimpse into the geophysical phenomenon came after NASA and CNSE's SWOT satellite captured the tsunami sparked by the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of ...

A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami in late July. The Surface Water ...

NASA’s SWOT satellite measured a Kamchatka tsunami in unprecedented detail, helping NOAA fine-tune models and improve early warnings for coastal communities. Credit: Shutterstock NASA and France’s ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, jointly developed by NASA and the French space agency CNES with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency and the UK Space Agency, is ...

Many in Waikiki didn’t listen to evacuation orders during Tuesday's tsunami warning, putting themselves and others in danger. Elected officials from Waikiki and Kakaako say Tuesday’s traffic gridlock ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Hawaii, the U.S. West Coast and Japan. Several people were injured, none gravely, ...

Tsunami waves reached parts of Hawaii, Alaska, California, Washington and Oregon on Wednesday, triggered by a powerful earthquake in eastern Russia. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit near Russia's ...

The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, ...

A tsunami watch for the Washington coast has been upgraded to a tsunami advisory, following an 8.7-magnitude earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka region on Tuesday, July 29, according to the ...

LOS ANGELES - California remained on high alert Wednesday as many coastal communities remained under a Tsunami Advisory. In Southern California, the alert was lifted and downgraded to a tsunami watch ...