Some 66 million years ago, a 6-mile-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near what today is Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, wiping out much of the planet’s life. The impact left a crater 110 miles wide and 12 ...

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CANNON BEACH, Ore. -- With just a click on the computerized map of Cannon Beach, the numbers start rolling. Seconds fly by, then minutes. More numbers roll over so fast they can barely be read, but ...

A chilling new simulation shows how a massive megathrust earthquake could unleash a devastating tsunami on the West Coast. The canimation from cutawaynature’s Instagram account shows what happens deep ...

Kingston, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) The Caribbean island of Jamaica and Portugal will be the scenarios of the Caribbean Wave, annual exercise of tsunami simulation and in which warnings of this ...

The miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped out nearly all the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal species. It also triggered a monstrous ...