The Meiji Sanriku tsunami, which struck 126 years ago, killed as many as 20,000 people. A stone cenotaph was erected in the village of Toni in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, to mark the disaster of ...

Prior to the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake and tsunami of March 11, two similar seismic events — both followed by tsunami — have recently wrought destruction on the northeastern coast of Japan's ...

"The tsunami wave measured in the city of Ofunato was lower than the domestic record of 38.2 meters [125 feet. 4 inches] marked in the 1896 Meiji Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami, and 34.9 meters [114 ...

The tsunami generated by the 9.0-magnitude offshore earthquake on March 11, ... the Great Meiji Sanriku Tsunami of 1896 destroyed all the homes in what was then the village of Tarō, ...

That's about the height of a typical six- or seven-story building. "A tsunami wave that hit a coastal city in Iwate Prefecture after the March 11 massive earthquake is estimated to have reached 23 ...

In 1896, an 8.5 quake hit Sanriku, Japan, killing 27,000 and causing a tsunami of 25 meters. The quake that resulted in the most fatalities occurred in 1923, when a 7.9 quake struck Kanto, killing ...

The Sanriku Coast - which includes present day Iwate and parts of Aomori and Miyagi ... The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami thrust the Tohoku region into the international spotlight.