said the Japan Meteorological Agency, without issuing a tsunami warning. The epicentre was the Bungo Channel, a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, the agency said.

Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet, slipped. The upward shove violently shifted the ...

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Five days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Akemi Karino came to look for her missingdaughter at her destroyed elementary school. She saw rubble ...

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On March 11, 2011, a powerful tsunami traveling nearly 500 miles per hour with 10-meter-high waves swept over the east coast of Japan, killing more than 18,000 people. Here are some stories from ...

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A 13-year-old Hawaiian surfer (Brandon Baker) finds his life turned topsy-turvy when his family moves to a ski resort in Vermont. Sam: Lee Thompson Young. Pete Kapahaala: Yuji Okumoto. Johnny ...

Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia in ceremonies on Thursday to ...

An aerial view shows an electric generator barge that was swept inland during the 2004 tsunami. Survivors and ... seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the ...

A Japanese government panel has largely supported a draft energy policy calling for bolstering renewables up to half of ...

26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. On March 11, 2011, a powerful tsunami traveling ...

About 18,000 people were listed as dead or missing in Japan following the quake and tsunami. The waves also reached locations on the other side of the Atlantic, hitting Hawaii, and the coasts of ...