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

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

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

After a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, tsunami alerts rippled out across Hawaii, Alaska, ...

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 ...

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