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 ...

The tsunamis that claimed thousands of lives across the Indian Ocean are the deadliest great waves in more than a century and probably in modern history. More than 36,000 people were killed by ...

Discover some of the deadliest earthquakes on Earth that reshaped the world, caused tsunamis, and left lasting impacts on ...

On December 26, 2004, what is believed to be the most significant and lethal tsunami ever struck Indonesia and the surrounding countries. The Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 is considered to be the ...

Marking 20 years since one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, National Geographic will premiere TSUNAMI: RACE AGAINST TIME, a four-part do ...

One of the deadliest tsunamis in recorded history was triggered by a volcanic explosion at Krakatoa in 1883, proving that seismic activity is not the only danger.

“It’s really the tsunamis from these earthquakes that prove to be the deadliest and most dangerous,” says Roland Bürgmann, a seismologist at the University of California, Berkeley who wasn ...

The tsunami, the deadliest in recorded history, killed more than 225,000 people, primarily in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook the seafloor off Indonesia, sending a 100-foot wall of water to communities and killing over 220,000 people.

Marking 20 years since one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, Nat Geo's "Tsunami: Race Against Time," tells the minute-by-minute story of the event that left more than 230,000 people dead.

On December 26, 2004, what is believed to be the most significant and lethal tsunami ever struck Indonesia and the surrounding countries. The Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 is considered to be the ...

The deadliest recorded tsunami in history claimed hundreds of thousands of lives after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean in 2004. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...