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Pre-Columbian tsunami deposit revealed in a core taken in mangrove pond at East Bajura, Puerto Rico. Credit: Bruce Jaffe

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Tsunami deposits identified in a coastal mangrove pond in Northwest Puerto Rico could have come from a megathrust earthquake at the Puerto Rico Trench...

Strong earthquake shakes western Indonesia, no tsunami alert

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A strong undersea earthquake shook western Indonesia Monday morning. But there were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties. The magnitude 6.0 earthquake was...

Seafloor video shows landslide was not source of 1918 Puerto Rico tsunami

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Seafloor video collected by a remotely operated vehicle off the coast of Puerto Rico indicates that an underwater landslide was not the cause of...

Underwater tsunamis created by glacier calving cause vigorous ocean mixing

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Scientists on a research vessel in Antarctica watched the front of a glacier disintegrate and their measurements "went off the scale." As well as...

Global tsunamis driven by underwater volcanic eruptions

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In 1883, there was a volcanic eruption so large it killed tens of thousands of people. It expelled so much ash that, for a...

The plate boundary between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula could cause large tsunamis

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A new study led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona and the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)...

Shockwave caused by Tonga underwater eruption may help scientists predict future tsunami

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Using data from the eruption of the underwater volcano near Tonga in 2022, a research group at Nagoya University in Japan has used disturbances...

Scientists provide explanation for exceptional Tonga tsunami

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Scientists say they have identified the exact mechanism responsible for the exceptional tsunami that spread quickly across the world after the colossal eruption of...

Tsunami threats are greatly underestimated in current models, new research shows

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The 2004 Sumatra earthquake generated one of the most destructive tsunamis ever recorded, with 100-foot waves that killed nearly 230,000 and resulted in an...

New research could provide earlier warning of tsunamis

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A new method of detecting mega earthquakes, which picks up on the gravity waves they generate by using deep-learning models created at Los Alamos...
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