Tsunamis can be triggered as secondary disasters following megathrust earthquakes, with their intensity largely dependent on the magnitude of shallow seismic ruptures. Historically, considerable ...

Regular tsunamis are destructive, but mega tsunamis are on another level. Could one really reach skyscraper heights? How are they formed, and what would happen if the biggest one ever hit? Scientists ...

With reports swirling of harassed geisha, parking-spot punch-ons and tourist litter killing sacred deer, it’s no wonder some locals are worried about preserving their way of life – though others view ...

Both states were inundated with a 55-foot-tall wave, flooding ... years ago unleashed a tsunami over 50 feet high that barreled over the states and reached as far as Japan. Although the San ...

That’s essentially the advice Japan’s government had for the wave of Aussie tourists flooding into its heaving hotspots this holiday season. Obviously, they put it more politely than that.

Post-2004 tsunami interest got additional boosts in 2010 with an 8.7 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 M9.1 in Japan. The video footage of the 2011 tsunami battering Japan’s Tohoku coast did more ...

The submarine volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, which is located about 65 kilometers north of Nuku'alofa, caused a tsunami of 1.2 meters, reported the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

A total of 74 children and 10 teachers died at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in the tsunami spawned by the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ...

But the most earthquakes are recorded in Japan, where scientists have many instruments that ... The energy from an earthquake ...

The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), began the dismantling of the treated ...