Tsunamis don’t look the way we picture them. Most people, if they imagined one coming, would picture a towering wall of dark ...

Tsunami deposits and coastal geological processes provide critical insights into past events and future risks. Tsunami deposits are layers of sediment laid down by tsunami waves as they inundate ...

Japan’s earthquake planners divide the Nankai fault zone into named segments, each with its own rupture history and hazard clock. The eastern one, called Tokai, hasn’t broken in more than 170 years.

Over 1,400 firefighters deployed, blaze remains uncontrolled despite rain forecast Haga worries about shortage of firefighters as wildfires increase and population declines A tenth of Otsuchi's ...

Japanese authorities issued tsunami alerts after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the country's north on April 20, 2026, but footage circulating online showing a neighbourhood engulfed by massive ...

A 1,578-foot tsunami in Alaska's Tracy Arm Fjord was the second largest ever recorded, driven by climate change.