Triggered by a magnitude 8.3 earthquake, 1,719 feet (524 meters) of churning water exploded into the sky after 90 million tons of rock and ice collapsed into the bay. It leveled everything in its path ...

As the largest earthquake ever recorded, it not only reshaped the coastal ... The Great Chilean Earthquake of 1960 left an indelible mark on history. It reshaped the physical and human landscape ...

Garrett McNamara holds the record for the largest wave ever surfed ... that their crests combine into one much larger crest. An earthquake followed by a landslide in 1958 in Alaska’s Lituya ...

It was the worst tsunami disaster in history. The clearing-up process ... the United States faced its most powerful earthquake since records began. Known as the Good Friday earthquake, it affected ...

huddled under tables and held on for about a minute in what is being billed as the largest earthquake drill in history. More than 5 million people registered to participate in the drill.

Written records of these earthquakes include the past 400 years, but Ebel said extending this record further into the past with the help of Native American knowledge can help scientists better ...