Japan’s Tohoku University has been developing a unique disaster-prevention system through its Tsunami Balloon Project.

They may be relatively rare, but they rank among nature’s most destructive forces. This week, we’re exploring the science behind tsunamis. * The word itself means “harbor wave” in Japanese, and it’s ...

Brian Garcia, a warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service based in Monterey, was in the East Bay on Thursday morning when an earthquake alert, then a tsunami alert, hit his ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, a NASA satellite has just watched a giant tsunami unfold in unprecedented detail, turning a once theoretical hazard into something scientists can now see and ...