An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to ...

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

Many post offices in the Tohoku area were damaged in the tsunami and also adversely affected by the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident triggered by the 2011 earthquake. According to ...

While the 2011 Tohoku tsunami caused about $12 billion in damages to port facilities and vessels, the ensuing port disruptions resulted in a loss in seaborne trade that cost approximately $3.4 ...

Port disruptions are costly, very costly. While the 2011 Tohoku tsunami caused around $12 billion in damages to port facilities and vessels, the ensuing port disruptions resulted in a loss in seaborne ...

The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in losses every day, as was seen in the 2011 tsunami that hit the Tohoku Region. To better assess the ripple effect a ...

In 2012, the Japanese government funded the multi-institute Tohoku Ecosystem–Associate Marine Sciences project to analyse the effects of the tsunami and other earthquake-associated environmental ...

Using the Chikyu vessel, researchers drilled nearly a kilometer below the seafloor at a depth of 7 kilometers, installing ...

YAMADA, Iwate Prefecture—A European oyster species that “disappeared” from waters around the Tohoku region after the 2011 tsunami was, in fact, just laying low. Aquaculture farmers here are ...