According to the Xinhua News Agency, the quake occurred offshore and had its epicentre at a latitude of 42.8° North and a ...

It unleashed a tsunami resulting in catastrophic loss of life and destruction in Japan, and with impacts felt across the entire Pacific Basin. The tsunami arrived at the coast within 30 minutes ...

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

There is a sleeping giant off the coast of the Pacific Northwest that could cause chaos to North America when it eventually wakes up. Known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, this 1,130-kilometer ...

It’s a daunting challenge with the highest possible stakes should an offshore earthquake unleash a wall of incoming seawater. The last megathrust earthquake to hit the region was in 1700, and the ...

This delineation is critical when predicting earthquakes and tsunami waves for Canada's west coast ... Located 100-200 kilometres off the Pacific coast of North America, the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

Travel between the US and Japan is emerging as a rare bright spot this summer for American carriers, easing the blow from a ...

While scientists stress earthquakes are impossible to predict, residents are being urged to prepare for a worst-case scenario.

The incident had killed more than 180,000 people along Japan’s north-east coast. The Tokyo District Court in July 2022 ruled that the former executives were liable for compensation after finding that ...

There is a small and rather unremarkable city of 30,000 people in one of Japan’s rather unremarkable prefectures, located around two hours due north by train from Kyoto, called Obama.