Japan’s 2011 tsunami affected both the rich coastal ecosystems of northeastern Japan and the local communities reliant upon them. The destruction to the landscape wreaked by the tsunami that ...

Sep. 12, 2024 — A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout ...

Satellite data show the shape of a wave as water sloshed around Dickson Fjord after a rockslide triggered a tsunami. The SWOT ...

A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, scientists have discovered. The space rock, which was 200 times the size of the ...

The researchers eventually worked out that 25 million cubic metres of rock - a volume equivalent of 25 Empire State Buildings - slammed into the water, causing a 200m-high “mega-tsunami”.

His calculations suggest that even mega-tremblors in any of the other seismic zones in the Indian Ocean would generate tsunami wave heights around the island which are only about 20-30% of those ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

These earthquakes often cause tsunamis more destructive than the earthquakes themselves. The earthquake led to an extremely powerful tsunami that created waves 66-feet-high and stretched from ...