Late on Monday, at 4:53pm local time, a powerful earthquake hit Japan. Reports vary, but the magnitude was somewhere between 7.4 and 7.7 on the Richter scale. It shook buildings, tore up roads, caused ...

A powerful tsunami seen from space is overturning what scientists thought they knew about how these waves travel.

Authorities urged residents to stay away from coastal areas where tsunami waves of up to 10 feet were possible.

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NASA’s SWOT satellite captures the first high-resolution tsunami view, revealing complex wave patterns and reshaping how ...