Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In light of the recent tsunami and earthquake news – re: the 8.8-magnitude tremor that struck off the Russian coast, sending ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...

A new study claims that an 80-100-foot-wide layer of clay exacerbated the 2011 earthquake.

You’ve heard about Washington’s earthquake risk, but you might not realize Washington is also at risk for a major tsunami. It ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains the origins of the devastating 2011 Japan earthquake.

A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake ...

Since 2011, scientists have been puzzled about the force resulting from a gigantic earthquake and tsunami that destroyed, among other things, Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant. Now, a Guinness World ...