An unnoticed cleaner is believed to have unwittingly triggered a major tsunami alert that sent thousands of people in a major Coromandel town into a panic for the second time in just over a week.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officials announced today that the coasts of Northern California and Oregon were under tsunami warnings following a 7.0-magnitude ...

It was a typical sunny Thursday morning — and suddenly messages popped up on millions of cell phones across the Bay Area and Northern California: “Tsunami warning … you are in danger … move to higher ...

The Pacific Northwest, celebrated for its forests, coffee culture, and dramatic coastlines, is sitting on a geological time bomb. Beneath the calm surface of the Pacific, the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

Scientists are warning of a potentially catastrophic mega-tsunami that could strike parts of the US Pacific Coast, triggered by a major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ). Stretching ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- Huntington Beach's civil defense sirens sounded early Friday morning in a false alarm that warned residents of a non-existent tsunami. "There is no current threat to our ...