On Boxing Day 2004, a monstrous 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian ocean, unleashing widespread devastation in the ...

It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest waves hitting Tohoku, a region in north Japan ... It was the worst tsunami disaster in history. The Boxing Day earthquake struck at 7.59am local ...

It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest waves hitting Tohoku ... It was the worst tsunami disaster in history. The Boxing Day earthquake struck at 7.59am local time and, during ...

The biggest, but not necessarily the worst ... being the worst tsunami to hit the West Coast in recorded history. The tsunami ...

The largest-ever tsunami wave was recorded in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958 following an earthquake and a colossal landslide, and towered at a whopping 1720 feet. Their wave periods—or the time ...

Tsunamis are actually a series of waves, but are catagorized by the magnitude of the largest wave of the set. There are two types of tsunamis: Local and Teletsunamis. Local tsunamis are waves ...

26, to mark two decades since the world’s largest tsunami. On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the modern era, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake spurred catastrophic waves that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. This is how scientists study tsunamis. The Delta Flume is a massive wave tank in the Netherlands. It's nearly 1,000- feet long.