Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ... in length between the India plate and Burma microplate.

For decades, there’s been talk of an earthquake so powerful ... Mendocino in the north, is the boundary between the Pacific Plate, which includes the Pacific Ocean, and the North American ...

Underwater eruptions may seem distant to folks on land, but they have global significance. The 2022 Hunga Tonga event, for ...

Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...

This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over 5,000 lives. But the local indigenous Moken people miraculously survived with ...

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana.

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

For decades, there’s been talk of an earthquake so powerful that California would shake loose and fall into the Pacific Ocean. Some would clarify the claim by saying that after the "Big One," ...

Dec 30 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Luzon in the Philippines ... which is located in the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire", where volcanic activity and earthquakes frequently occur.