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 ...

Although the tsunami did not materialize, authorities at all levels stressed that there was significant initial concern, and it was not a false alarm. Swarm of aftershocks A ...

Tsunamis are a hot topic in popular culture, lately. But is Florida ready for what some experts have warned for decades is ...

Maul among first to sound tsunami alarm The late George Maul, an oceanographer and tsunami expert at Florida Institute of Technology, warned for decades of inevitable tsunamis in Florida and the ...

Residents in disaster-prone areas also receive an SMS alert of an imminent tsunami, warning them to evacuate quickly. Before 2004, it would take anywhere from 15 to 50 minutes before an alarm ...