In the Caribbean Sea between the coast of Honduras and the Cayman Islands, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7,6 hit. The aftershocks have forced officials to issue a warning of a possible tsunami threat across the region. The US Geological Survey assigned 7,6 points to the earthquake. It happened at sea about 125 miles ...

An earthquake measuring 8,2 on the Richter scale struck the coast of Mexico. President Enrique Peña Nieto called this tremor the strongest in the last hundred years. The epicenter of the earthquake was located 119 km southwest of the settlement of Tres Pikos. The focus of the earthquake lay ...

Geologists warn that tectonic plate collisions in Alaska could trigger underwater earthquakes. They, in turn, will cause tsunamis in Hawaii and the California coast. In the past century, several of these tsunamis have destroyed parts of Hawaii, Alaska and California. Geophysicist John Miller reports that there could be more tsunamis ...

Scientists have found evidence that a volcanic eruption on the Cape Verde Islands in Africa triggered waves of incredible heights about 73 thousand years ago. The height of the tsunami then reached 245 meters. Experts say that the threat of such tsunamis still exists today. In 2004, a wave high ...