Earlier tsunami warnings following a huge 7.0 earthquake in California have been lifted. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported in northern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Mount Tambora in Indonesia 1815 was the planet’s last massive eruption and it ushered in global disaster. Scientists warn the ...

Garza said many new houses are coming soon. “If the weatherman says ‘There’s a tsunami coming,’ and you don’t want to believe him, the tsunami is going to come anyway," he said.

643 kilometres away. The City of Berkeley police department had issued an evacuation order for parts of the city on the San Francisco Bay "due to a Tsunami coming to West Berkeley," according to ...

A tsunami warning for the coastal areas of Oregon and Northern California was cancelled just over an hour after a major 7.0 earthquake struck the region on Wednesday morning. The National Tsunami ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on ...

Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war, triggered the worst rail accident in history and shattered the lives of ...

Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...

Almost 1,000 kilometers off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the ...