There’s an innate human yearning for greatness – bigger, better, more, more, more. And surfers, amongst the rest of the world, are not immune from this craving. Particularly when it comes to big wave ...

It starts as a tremor deep beneath the ocean. The ground shifts violently. Minutes later, you see a ripple on the horizon that begins to swell. But this is no ordinary wave. It is a wall of water ...

On July 29, an 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. It prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific region. Tsunami waves reached Hawaii and the West Coast but evacuation ...

Competition at the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach was canceled Wednesday — not because of massive tsunami waves and intense currents, but because the waves were too small. What tsunami, you ...

The earthquake off Tonga has resulted in Pacific-wide tsunami warnings, including the whole Australian East Coast and US West Coast. It seems like an extraordinary event, but really, it isn’t.

In 2011, Japan was rocked by a 9.0 undersea earthquake and resulting tsunami. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the waves it generated spanned up to 30-feet high before ...

For surfers and ocean enthusiasts, the footage serves as a reminder that tsunami waves often look very different from normal surf. Rather than pitching beachbreaks or reeling pointbreaks, they ...

No sooner had the tsunami watch been issued than the text messages began coming in. Friends and family wanted to know if I was safe. Would the waves reach me? Should I drive, or even run, to higher ...