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One resident remembered a minor tsunami from decades ago, how it sucked the water out of a canal and then came back as a six-inch wall of water. "It didn't crest or foam," he recalled, "it was a wall." Locals in Hawaii know which areas to worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Chile's Quake, Hawaii Braces for Tsunami | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

Chile, however, is no stranger to major earthquakes. In 1960, a 9.5-magnitude temblor - the strongest quake ever recorded by scientific instruments - hit the Chilean city of Valdivia, killing nearly 2,000 people. And although today's quake is the strongest in the last half-century to hit Chile, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explainer: Why Chile's Quake Wasn't Unexpected | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

No matter what brought on this tragedy, Tilikum's third killing has not been ruled a death-penalty crime. Though animals that kill humans, both in the wild and in captivity, are usually summarily killed themselves, that's not a firm rule. Travis, the chimp that mutilated a Connecticut woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer-Whale Tragedy: What Made Tilikum Snap? | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

Whatever the reason, his arrest doesn't represent a sea change in Pakistan's attitude toward its longtime clients in the Afghan Taliban, say White House officials with responsibility for Pakistan and Afghanistan. While Washington views the TTP, the Haqqani network, al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban as all part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking It to the Taliban | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

Iran is gloating now that it has seized its public enemy No. 1. On Feb. 22, Iranian agents allegedly intercepted Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of Jundallah, a Sunni extremist group that has waged a low-level war against Tehran for the better part of a decade, killing hundreds. According to state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Arrest of an Extremist Foe: Did Pakistan Help? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

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