A new era in tsunami observation arrived July 29, 2025, when the NASA-CNES Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite happened to be passing over the Pacific Ocean just as a strong 8.8 ...

Making waves across the world... and above it! Here's how a passing satellite ended up giving us a new way to analyze ...

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off of the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami alerts across Alaska, Hawaii the west coast of the contiguous United States on July 29.

The quake in Russia on Wednesday was among the strongest ever recorded — but in many places, the resulting wave was small. By Katrina Miller Early Wednesday morning, a powerful earthquake, one of the ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Nearly a year after the tsunami warning that sent thousands scrambling and created massive traffic gridlock across Oʻahu, the Honolulu City Council is asking the city’s Department ...

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