The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day ...

Hours later, a second 6.1 magnitude quake hit in the same area. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued an alert following the first quake saying hazardous waves could be possible but ...

“We need to be on the right side of history,” he told Brunswick News in an ... For this iconic species to have a chance at survival, it needs the same enthusiasm, financially, that the Pacific coast ...

A recent study on the ancient glaciers of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island has revealed important insights about how past climate changes affected the region and how these shifts could impact global ...

TAMA HILLS GOLF COURSE, Japan — Eligible golfers in the Japanese capital will soon be able to putt on the same type of greens ... Tama Hills, built on the site of a World War II-era ammunition ...

Black and Japanese American advocates discussed shared struggles and support for reparations at a Sacramento event.

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... prompting an initial tsunami warning that was later lifted for the Pacific island country. The US Geological Survey ...

Taiwan's Myanmar community traces its history back to the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, when many of the defeated Republic of China soldiers fled into what was then called Burma before ...