The earthquake was powerful. One of the strongest ever recorded. Unlike 2011's Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, there was little damage.

According o the U.S. Department of Energy, Radiological Control Operations discovered a wasp nest near a tank at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC.

The shallow tremor off the Kamchatka Peninsula damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern seaboard − devastated by a 9.0 magnitude ...

On Dec. 21, 1812, a wave arrived at Ho’okena on the west coast of the Big Island and became the first recorded tsunami event, NOAA said. Since then, more than 160 tsunamis have been confirmed in the ...

A magnitude 8.2 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed more than 5,200 people on Dec. 30, 1703, according to NOAA data. The event occurred off the southwest Boso Peninsula, which is just south of ...

Tsunami warnings prompted gridlocked traffic as people tried to reach higher elevations in Hawaii, but the threat level was later downgraded.

Tsunami warnings that blanketed the west coast July 29 prompted memories of a 1958 wave that struck Alaska, the largest ever recorded.