MELBOURNE, Australia -- A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck in the South Pacific near the island nation of Samoa on Friday, but ...

No immediate tsunami warning, reports of casualties or infrastructural damage issued after 6 magnitude quake shakes West ...

Japan's weather agency said Friday that a malfunction in the ocean-floor observation system off the Pacific coast, installed ...

The quake occurred 440 kilometres (273 miles) southwest of the capital Apia at a depth of 314 kilometres (195 miles), the US Geological Survey said.

Imagine a massive wall of water slamming into the West Coast, giving residents just minutes to escape. This nightmare scenario is not fiction but a very real threat. Scientists have warned that a ...