In 2007, a massive landslide crashed into B.C.'s Lake Chehalis, triggering a tsunami that surged 38 metres up the shore — one ...
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How tsunamis form

Tectonic plates cause tsunamis mainly through sudden movements along subduction zones, where one plate dives beneath another.
Sometime between 1381 and 1391, an earthquake exceeding magnitude 8.0 rocked the northeastern Caribbean and sent a tsunami barreling toward the island of Anegada.
On 30 July, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami that spread across the Pacific Ocean.
A massive earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in late July triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific — and ...
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia, prompting close monitoring in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S ...
About three weeks ago, on July 30, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far eastern part of Russia, about 3,800 miles from us. This was a huge ...
The Atlantic coastline is vulnerable to tsunamis triggered by earthquakes and landslides across the ocean basin Tsunamis are a hazard across all three of Canada’s coastlines. The threat for these ...
A groundbreaking study from Virginia Tech warned that three US states are at significant risk of experiencing catastrophic mega-tsunamis in the next 50 years. Scientists have warned that a potentially ...