Before the tsunami spawned by the Great East Japan Earthquake struck on March 11, 2011, 70,000 pine trees lined the Takatamatsubara seashore area in Rikuzentakata. The beach, designated a national ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

Some news outlets obtained footage of people flocking to the beach to shred some waves before the tsunami hits California's coast. We wish that was a joke, but it's not. That being said ...

There may be more than one wave and the succeeding one may be larger than the one before. That is why a small tsunami at one beach can be a giant wave a few miles away. All tsunamis are ...