VENICE - A tsunami town hall in Venice turned into something more revealing than a standard preparedness meeting last week.

Contrary to common belief, the Mediterranean holds a significant and underrecognized tsunami risk, with waves capable of striking coastlines in minutes. The Mediterranean Sea is often dismissed as a ...

The Shoalwater Bay Tribe is getting $2.5 million to build a tsunami vertical evacuation tower on its land south of Westport. The FEMA grant will allow the tribe to build a tower that can hold 386 ...

Some 2,300 medical institutions and 7,300 welfare facilities are at risk of flooding in a tsunami triggered by the ...

A recent study by Greek scientists has warned of the possibility of a tsunami occurring in the central Aegean between ...

Eight years ago, Erik Thorsen — CEO of Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Ore. — received a warning that no hospital administrator wants to hear: A big earthquake could cause his hospital's ...

Oregon coast residents and visitors can learn more about tsunami hazards this week. The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is partnering with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — Residents of this small coastal city in the Pacific Northwest know what to do when there’s a tsunami warning: Flee to higher ground. For those in or near Columbia Memorial, the city’s ...

Japanese officials issued tsunami warnings and evacuation orders for the country’s northeast coast on Monday after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck 80 kilometers off the coast at 11:15 P.M. local ...