A powerful earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula sent massive waves racing across the Pacific Ocean in late July. What ...

On 29 July 2025, a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone, generating a Pacific-wide tsunami and providing a rare scientific opportunity for researchers worldwide ...

SWOT was never designed to track disasters. Launched in December 2022 as a joint mission between NASA and France’s Centre ...

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — NASA’s U.S.-French Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, which was launched in 2022 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, has spotted large-scale river waves for ...

Satellite data has revealed that the tsunami triggered by Russia's massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake in 2025 behaved differently than predicted, challenging existing tsunami models.

WASHINGTON — A NASA satellite is giving scientists an unprecedented look at bodies of water all over the world. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, also known as SWOT, is already ...

In the summer of 2025, a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. While that is not one of the five largest earthquakes ever recorded, that is still ...

WASHINGTON — A NASA satellite captured the first detailed, overhead view of a giant Pacific tsunami, and scientists are now sharing how it offers a new look at how tsunamis move across the ocean. In a ...

Part of the SWOT satellite instrument payload at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The joint NASA, French, Canadian and U.K. Surface Water and Ocean Topography ...

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — NASA’s U.S.-French ...