Sendai is seeing a rise in cases of upper-grade elementary school children not being able to use after-school care facilities — places for children to go while their parents are working ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A strong 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit near Tonga, prompting an initial tsunami warning that was later lifted for the Pacific island country. The U.S. Geological ...

Tsunami sirens could be heard after the 1:18 a.m. quake urging residents to move inland, according to the Talanoa o Tonga news site. There were no initial reports of damage.

The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center has said there is no tsunami danger for the East Coast of the United States after an earthquake occurred east of Greenland on Sunday.

A tsunami warning, issued after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Caribbean Sea Saturday evening north of Honduras and southwest of the Cayman Islands, was lifted after the tsunami threat ...

TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological ...

KHAO LAK, Thailand — Watana Sittirachot was raised at an orphanage in Thailand for children affected by the 2004 Asian tsunami. Now, 20 years after the disaster changed the course of his life ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia —Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves. Asnani, ...

Seventy minutes after the quake struck Northern California, at 11:54 a.m., the tsunami warning was deactivated. “We were fortunate yesterday, but don’t assume the next warning will play out ...

An urgent tsunami warning was issued on Thursday, Dec. 5, for residents of the Northern California area in the wake of a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean.

Live webcams kept an eye on the coast after tsunami warnings followed a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in northern California at 10:44 a.m. PDT. The Noyo Center for Marine Science Crow’s Nest camera ...