A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook Thursday — and while Humboldt County evaded major structural damage and injuries, many locals bungled the tsunami evacuation. Of particular concern was a traffic ...

In the United States and its territories, there are 200 tsunami-ready locales, a designation that asks communities to have evacuation maps, signage and sustained public education efforts.

And not all tsunamis will flood the entire hazard zone. If a tsunami is, say, more than four hours away from arriving, officials may be able to issue fine-tuned orders that will limit the scope of ...

Oregon scientists are hoping to help the coastal communities survive a major inundation in various ways. One of those is ...

JAPAN issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 ... Some 11 cities in the Kochi Prefecture were issued with evacuation orders earlier on Monday before the warning was lifted.

But that's not likely enough to handle the high-energy waves of a tsunami, Velioglu Sogut added. Brevard's hurricane evacuation plans could be adapted to a tsunami, but the challenge lies in the much ...

It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean. More than 230,000 people died, including many ...

Tsunami evacuation and risk management are critical components of disaster preparedness, especially in coastal areas prone to seismic activity. Recent research has focused on understanding ...