Tsunami News

An image from an animation using satellite observations of the March 11 tsunami that shows how the waves of the tsunami were influenced by seafloor features.

Farmers have resumed planting rice for market only 15 kilometres from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a local official said Wednesday.

On Friday, March 11, 2011, Japan experienced an earthquake and a tsunami that killed many people and destroyed nuclear power plants owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Company .

Hundreds of people living just outside Japan's Fukushima prefecture say they have been denied adequate compensation after the country's 2011 nuclear disaster despite suffering elevated radiation levels.

This is the last of a ten part program series covering the most recent and complex status of the ecological and medical consequences of the Fukushima catastrophe - as well as the very important details of engineering in nuclear power technology.

Oklahoma 's huge tornado hit this week is a painful reminder that the sun isn't always shining when you plan to travel.

WASHINGTON a?? Republican donor Foster Friess is pledging $1 million to help Oklahoma tornado victims and challenging others to match his gift.

Metro-North's patchwork of shuttle buses and trains following Friday's derailment got people to work on Monday, but it was not pretty.

Fumiya Saeki's favourite hobby is watching TV. One day in 2011, he saw news reports on the tsunami that hit northeastern Japan.

TWO orphans of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami were welcomed to Cornwall on Saturday as they launched their new flip-flop brand, Gandys, in the county.

Not only is it a commodity, but nuclear power has a stigma attached to it, thanks to the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear mishap in Japan.

"Armani the anteater's surprising pregnancy has sparked a debate over what animals are capable of when it comes to sex." NBC News Animals Archeaologists have uncovered evidence that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have practiced agriculture before the arrival of domesticated rice in the region.

Today, roughly one-quarter of the world's population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states.

Muscat: Recent research has revealed that the Makran Subduction Zone is more prone to earthquakes and tsunami hazards than previously thought.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, but Chilean emergency authorities said they saw no prospect that the tremor would generate a tsunami.

An earthquake with an esimated 6.8 magnitude struck off the Coast of Chile Sunday night.

When the magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan more than two years ago, there were 1,200 global positioning system stations recording ocean floor movement.

Children's experiences and opinions must be taken into account when predicting, preparing for and responding to disasters, says a global charity.

My mother went into paid work soon after my father's clothing store was flooded out in a hurricane, almost wiping him out.

I recall my state of wonderment back in 1995 the first time I sent an email. It was almost unfathomable at the time that I could hit a computer key and a few minutes later what I had typed could appear on a computer screen on another continent.