News

The Japan Meteorological Agency has begun using the label "data not available" when tsunami observation systems are damaged ...
Scientists are warning that a 100-foot, Doomsday-style tsunami is primed to hit the US West Coast at any moment. Yet ...
A recent 7.3 magnitude earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings, stirring memories of the 1958 ...
Japan's weather agency said Wednesday that data from an offshore tsunami gauge in the Pacific Ocean is currently unavailable, ...
and the Revision of Tsunami Warnings / Advisories. ... In this report, the author explores how municipalities and broadcasting media intend to convey the imminence of mega tsunami to the public.
Historians and scientists estimate that it was a magnitude 9.0 earthquake which unleashed a mega tsunami that destroyed the village of Pachena Bay in British Columbia. Read More.
After the Great East Japan Earthquake, the expected impact of giant earthquake and tsunami has been intensified, and the content of tsunami warnings/advisories was revised on March 2013.
A 2022 FEMA planning exercise estimated 5,800 deaths from the quake and another 8,000 from the tsunami. Over 618,000 buildings, including more than 2,000 schools and 100 key facilities, could be ...
Tsunami advisory (0.2 to 1 meter): People at sea will be at risk of being caught in fast currents. However, people on land will be relatively safe as long as they do not approach the coast or the ...
A tsunami advisory was immediately issued for the Izu and Ogasawara islands. The agency issued tsunami warnings at 7:52 a.m. for Kujukuri, Sotobo, and Uchibo in Chiba Prefecture, and Kochi Prefecture.
In September 2023, a massive landslide in Greenland's Dickson Fjord triggered a mega-tsunami, sending seismic waves globally for nine days. The 650-foot wave, caused by climate change-induced ...
In Japan, tsunami warnings and evacuation plans have progressed by leaps and bounds since Hamaguchi’s heroics. The waters around the disaster-prone country are now dotted with ocean-bottom ...