What causes the ocean to swell? It's not just the Moon that has a gravitational pull on spring tides. The Earth’s gravitational force pulls the waves down, thus resulting in high and low tides. A ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The WMBF First Alert Weather team gave you the First Alert to Spring Tides this week, which could cause some minor flooding for parts of the Grand Strand. But what makes ...

If you soak in the sun from the same spot on the beach all day, you might notice the water retreating from you or inching closer. This is the tide changing throughout the day, and it’s all possible ...

Eclipses are spectacular reminders of our moon's influence on the Earth, especially the solar variety that will occur on Aug. 21. Eclipses were thought to be forebodings of disastrous events in more ...

Why do king tides cause flooding in low-lying coastal areas? What to know about the higher-than usual tides on the Grand Strand.

The length of Earth's day is only 24 hours, rather than over 60 hours, thanks to a temporary balance between the gravitational tidal forces from the moon and the sun. However, at the rate at which the ...

Special Issue 65: Proceedings of the 12th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM ICS 2013, Volume 2 (2013), pp. 1140-1145 (6 pages) Published By: Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc. This study ...

A warning has been issued that urges people to avoid coastal locations in Devon ahead of today's spring tide. Visitors to Cornwall have also been told to be vigilant as super spring tides are due to ...

Everything has to be somewhere. It's a phrase I preach to my students all the time, because it helps to account for some of the things in marine science that we need to track. Water and sediment are ...

The current healthy girth of Brevard County's beaches will buffer us as we go into Dorian mode, county officials assure. But depending upon the angle and timing of its attack, the powerful hurricane ...

EUGENE, Ore. - Dec. 9, 2016 -- Five million years ago, the Colorado River met the Gulf of California near the present-day desert town of Blythe, California. The evidence, say University of Oregon ...