They were searching for “1700” — a 9-magnitude temblor that year that shook the land, caused large swaths of the coast to sink down several feet and triggered a tsunami. To find evidence of ...

A POWERFUL 8.3 magnitude earthquake has struck the Pacific Ocean near the coast of central Chile, with US authorities warning it could generate a tsunami The epicentre of the tremor, which ...

26, 1700. It measured between 8.7 and 9.2, Cassidy said. He said the details are known because there is written history in Japan from that date of an “orphan tsunami” that rolled ashore that ...