A rare and brief tsunami warning tested city and county responses in Northern California after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake ...

Earlier tsunami warnings following a huge 7.0 earthquake in California have been lifted. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.

Given the size and location of Thursday’s earthquake, federal officials took a “better safe than sorry” approach ...

Thursday's tsunami scare gives Oregonians an opportunity to evaluate their preparedness, according to the Oregon Department ...

The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from Northern California to ...

A meteorologist from the National Weather Service's Bay Area office explains the concerns that triggered this week's dramatic ...

A tsunami warning was issued after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake ... such as the one in 2011 that came after the massive Fukushima earthquake in Japan, scientists have time to measure the size ...

The word for tsunami comes from the Japanese ... The last time California received a warning alert was 2011 when an earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along the California ...

Tsunamis are rare natural disasters. The last tsunami warning in California was issued in response to a magnitude-9.1 earthquake that struck Japan in 2011, also know as the “Fukushima event.” ...