Satellites recorded the largest ocean swells ever seen from space, highlighting how massive waves can act as storm "messengers," carrying a storm's power across entire oceans. Observations from the ...

A new paper from an international team of more than 50 researchers, including four from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, proposes the creation of a global observing network of ...

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 ...

A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, revealing two simultaneous wind–wave energy-transfer tricks—slow short waves steal ...

A tsunami is a series of waves caused by a significant and sudden movement of water in the ocean. The most common trigger for tsunamis is large earthquakes that occur beneath or near the ocean floor, ...

Tsunami means “harbor wave” in Japanese, but they differ from other waves that are generated by the wind or solar system. Tsunami waves move the entire depth of the ocean, down to the floor, which is ...