An area near Petersville, Alaska, was hit with a 4.6 earthquake on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. Newsweek reached out to the USGS's Earthquake Hazards Program via email ...

Dave Snider, Warning Coordinator with the Tsunami Warning Center, says Alaska got lucky after the magnitude 8.8 earthquake ...

Imagine a wall of water taller than the Empire State Building crashing through a quiet fjord in the dead of night. No warning ...

A tsunami sent waves into parts of Russia, Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami across the Pacific faded Wednesday after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck ...

A powerful earthquake off Russia’s east coast triggered tsunami waves across the Pacific, prompting alerts in Hawaii and ...

The magnitude 8.8 quakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings for a broad section of the Pacific, ...

A massive 8.7-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings across Japan and the USA, ...

But the danger appeared to be waning in some places, with the US state of Hawaii and Japan downgrading their warnings.

Hawaii officials say the timing of the tsunami warning and evacuation orders following this week's massive earthquake off ...

After that disaster, in 1949 the United States established the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), the first of its kind, to provide early warnings to populations around the Pacific. It was a ...