Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image of active volcano shows magma pressure inside volcanoes can destabilize slopes and trigger collapse. (CREDIT: YouTube / CC ...

A satellite captured a Tsunami from space for the first time, revealing why the 2025 Kamchatka earthquake was less destructive than 1952.

A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami in late July. Subscribe to our ...

Earthquakes can be damaging enough, but sometimes what follows can be worse. Dan Smith takes us through one of Earth's most ...

SWOT was never designed to track disasters. Launched in December 2022 as a joint mission between NASA and France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, its primary goal is to create the first global ...

How can a wave, half a dozen of centimeters high, to an entire ocean? Towards the end of July 2025, a submerged tsunami at ...

On July 29, 2025, the world’s sixth biggest recorded earthquake struck Russia, triggering a tsunami whose waves reached as far as the U.S.’s West Coast. Data from an unexpected source—space—has shed ...

Residents of Hawaii are breathing easier but remain cautious after tsunami waves from a powerful undersea earthquake off of Russia’s eastern coast were less severe than originally feared. Though they ...

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...