These California coastal cities face heightened flood danger from tsunami, data show
The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps published by the California Geological Survey, illustrate the devastation ...
‘Here is nowhere’: Japan’s stunning, little-known epic walking trail
The coastline here is as beautiful as it is battered, in a region that has traditionally seen few tourists. But that’s ...
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Banking on a ‘silver tsunami’ of baby boomer homes to hit the market?
That has the potential to more than make up for the estimated 4.5 million unit national home shortage. But for all the talk of a pending “silver tsunami ... with the largest housing shortages ...
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Tsunami fears hit the West Coast as scientists warn of 'inevitable' earthquake
Earthquakes trigger tsunamis ... two largest quakes in Oregon's history were produced by faults other than the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Both occurred in 1993. The first was a magnitude 5.6 ...
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Tsunami Warning System: Preparing for the unpredictable
The 9.5 magnitude earthquake in Chile, the largest recorded in the 20th century, set off a tsunami that battered the South American coastline for over 4,000 kilometres with waves up to 25 metres high.
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Scientists probe giant undersea landslides to learn about NZ’s big tsunami risk
“We often don’t know what causes individual undersea landslides, but we do know that some of these are vast, greater than 5 cu ... Zealand’s largest source of earthquake and tsunami hazard ...
‘Nervous and rushed’: Massive Fukushima plant cleanup exposes workers to high radiation and stress
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 ...
Upheavels in the Earth
Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...