The NWS warns that sneaker waves can reach much further up beaches and over rocks and jetties than expected. These waves can ...

As the name implies, these larger waves can sneak up on unsuspecting beachgoers since they randomly occur amid smaller waves ...

A major earthquake has rattled Tonga, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some 170 islands ...

This resulted in long-period (20 second) swells moving north into the Pacific Ocean. The swell first reached Tahiti, where ...

A major earthquake has rattled Tonga, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some ... that warned of potentially dangerous waves linked to the earthquake, but the center ...

But very large storms with high, sustained winds can generate waves with periods of more than 20 seconds. These waves travel ...