On Boxing Day 2004, a monstrous 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian ocean, unleashing widespread devastation in the ...

It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest waves hitting Tohoku, a region in north Japan ... It was the worst tsunami disaster in history. The Boxing Day earthquake struck at 7.59am local ...

It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest waves hitting Tohoku ... It was the worst tsunami disaster in history. The Boxing Day earthquake struck at 7.59am local time and, during ...

The biggest, but not necessarily the worst ... being the worst tsunami to hit the West Coast in recorded history. The tsunami ...

Survivors and mourners gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along the Indian Ocean that were ...

The largest-ever tsunami wave was recorded in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958 following an earthquake and a colossal landslide, and towered at a whopping 1720 feet. Their wave periods—or the time ...

A 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California in early December triggered a tsunami warning for parts of the ...

One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marks its 20th anniversary on Dec. 26 ...

Tsunamis are actually a series of waves, but are catagorized by the magnitude of the largest wave of the set. There are two types of tsunamis: Local and Teletsunamis. Local tsunamis are waves ...