At 2:46 p.m. on Tuesday, Japan observed a moment of silence to mark the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake ...

A study found that tectonic plates beneath the Chishima Trench are not slipping past each other but appear to be locked ...

An initial tsunami wave approximately 1 meter (3.2 feet ... Tokyo and killed at least 20,000 people. The 9.1 magnitude Tohoku earthquake spiraled into a fierce tsunami and nuclear disaster ...

Fair weather with breezy trades are in place across Guam and the southern CNMI but a shear line is dropping southward through ...

The 200-km Fukushima Coastal Trail takes hikers through some of the heaviest-hit areas of the earthquake, tsunami, and ...

The district was engulfed by waves more than 10 meters high when the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake struck off the coast of the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, unleashing the tsunami.

(James Whitlow Delano) After the Tohoku earthquake spawned a tsunami which ... Toni, Iwate Prefecture: The tsunami wall was not enough to hold back the wave that hit these homes. Even the homes high ...

The agency has urged residents in the Tohoku region to be on ... capital of Sendai observed a 20-cm wave at 1:46 a.m. In Fukushima Prefecture, a 20-cm tsunami reached Soma at 3:15 a.m. The long ...

2011 was the last time a tsunami warning was issued for Okinawa, following the massive March 11 earthquake that struck off the Tohoku region and set off huge waves there. On Ishigaki Island ...

and giant tsunami waves engulfed a broad area of the Pacific coast of Tohoku to Kanto regions. The death toll from the series of earthquake and tsunami has exceeded 15,000, far outnumbered that of ...

While a small tsunami wave of approximately 1 meter (3.2 feet ... In a country still haunted by the 2011 Tohoku disaster, when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered a deadly tsunami, authorities ...