SAN FRANCISCO >> A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7 hit off the coast of a sparsely populated area of northern California today, prompting coastal towns to evacuate low-lying areas amid a tsunami warning that was later canceled. There were no reports of ...

Update 10:38 p.m.: The Pacific Warning Tsunami Center has downgraded the tsunami warning for Hawaii to a tsunami advisory. Flooding has been limited to low-lying coastal areas. There are no reports of major damage or injuries on Maui, though Maui Fire ...

A massive tsunami-causing landslide in Southeast Alaska on Sunday likely sent more than 100 million cubic meters of debris — the equivalent of 40,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools — into an icy fjord and onto a prominent glacier in one of the largest ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 5 metres (16 feet) and sparked evacuation orders in Hawaii and across the Pacific on Wednesday.The shallow earthquake damaged buildings and ...