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A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck south of Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Monday, triggering a tsunami warning for the area, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The Tsunami Advisory was canceled late Wednesday morning for the Bay Area as waves hit the California coast after massive 8.8 quake in the eastern coastline of Russia. ABC7 News ...

The word tsunami can strike fear in the heart of anyone who remembers the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan, causing a nuclear meltdown at one of the country's reactor ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck near the coast of Northern Chile on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said, with local news media reporting some damage and minor landslides in ...

For the second time in two months, residents and emergency officials around the Pacific rim of the United States were put on alert about a potential tsunami after a Russian earthquake. The magnitude 7 ...