A tsunami warning was issued for the coast from ... that earthquake caused close to $100 million in damage in the most recent estimate, according to Lori Dengler, an emeritus professor in geology ...

JAPAN issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the country on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 23 miles and mainly hit the southwestern Kyushu region, said the ...

Most of Japan is located on the Pacific Ring ... In 2011, the deadliest quake and subsequent tsunami in recent Japanese history struck northwest of the capital Tokyo and killed at least 20,000 ...

TOKYO — A tsunami advisory was issued for part of southwest ... Experts at the meteorological agency met late Monday to gauge how the latest temblor may be related to the so-called Nankai ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency reported a 6.9 magnitude quake in southwestern Japan and issued a tsunami warning that ... late on Monday to gauge how the latest temblor may be related to the ...

Tsunamis occur globally but are most frequent in the Pacific and Indonesia. Around 80 percent of tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean because of the extensive tectonic plate activity, which has led ...

at depths of less than 650 feet in subduction zones where earthquakes and tsunamis are most prevalent. The latest versions of the SUBGEO system were deployed in mid-December at two locations on ...

There are many scenarios where a tsunami could be forecast with many hours of warning, and the most at-risk areas would be limited to beaches and harbors. The risk could be widespread, however.

Tsunamis – large, destructive ocean waves that can be triggered by powerful earthquakes – don’t pose much of a threat to most of the United States, based on data from the Federal Emergency ...

A major tsunami could swamp significant swaths of the Northern California coastline, according to hazard maps reviewed by The Times, making it vital for residents to know whether they live in an ...