Destructive waves have more energy and often cause coastal erosion. Destructive waves are steep and arrive at the coast rapidly (between 12-15 per minute). Their strong backwash will pull beach ...

Tsunami waves can travel through deep water at hundreds of kilometres per hour, as fast as a jet airplane flies at cruising altitude. Coastal residents near the epicentre of an offshore earthquake ...

Alfred's slowing means the huge waves triggered by the cyclone ... Sea-level rise will also make coastal erosion more destructive. We can't say definitively that climate change is behind Cyclone ...

waves. Authorities warned on Thursday of further hazardous surf with the potential to cause coastal erosion and damage from the Illawarra region south of Sydney to the Hunter region north of Sydney.

Beaches already hard hit by erosion along south-east Queensland's coast could be further impacted as swells caused by Tropical Cyclone Alfred are expected to cause significant damage. Hazardous ...

Orange County officials are moving forward with a series of projects to stabilize a stretch of coastal ... Storm waves crashing against the rocks, she said, then accelerate erosion.