To address this risk, researchers are developing ways to get tsunami warnings out faster to residents at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle’s Sand Point neighborhood.

The Maka Lahi boulder is the largest cliff-top boulder in the world, researchers said. Photo by Köhler, M., Lau, A., Nakata, K., Goto, K., Goff, J., Köhler, D. and ...

On the island of Tongatapu, the main island of Tonga, researchers scoured the southern coastline for evidence of violent weather events that occurred thousands of years ago. They were specifically ...

Models suggest the tsunami was triggered by a landslide caused by an earthquake near the Tonga-Kermadec Trench, according to the study. “Understanding past extreme events is critical for hazard ...

“This is not just a boulder; it’s the biggest wave-lifted boulder ever ... humans first arrived on Tonga. That timeline makes sense, given that a large tsunami hit New Zealand’s North ...