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 ...
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.
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake off northern Sumatra unleashed one of the worst disasters in human history, killing an estimated 230,000 people and causing vast environmental harm. However, it ...
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 ...