An international team coordinated by French researchers has made a major discovery in the Aegean Sea: the precise identification of the underwater rupture that caused the largest modern tsunami in ...
The underwater quake hit around 80 miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan’s biggest island. Hundreds of aftershocks followed in the ensuing weeks — many of which were magnitude 6.0 and stronger. It also ...
In remembrance of the 325th anniversary of the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone lost its grip, on Jan. 26, 1700, wreaking havoc on the Oregon Coast, a wave-height rerun about the “Eight of the ...
However, several smaller tsunamis of only around 20 centimetres ... killing nearly 470 people in Japan’s biggest jolt in more than a decade, many of them elderly residents in the aftermath.
“Now, the Cascadia subduction zone is our biggest tsunami threat on the U.S. West Coast. And we've got really good evidence that it last ruptured in 1700. And the magnitude was probably right ...