Tsunami warning lifted after 7.1 earthquake hits near Tonga in the South Pacific - A strong 7.0 magnitude earthquake has hit ...

TOKYO -- A strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit near Tonga, prompting a tsunami warning for the Pacific island country. The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor hit about 100 kilometers (62 miles) ...

Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — Tsunamis can cause immense physical damage to ports, but the economic cost does not stop there. The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in ...

This country is a meeting point for several tectonic plates including the Indian-Australian, Eurasian and Pacific.

Minoan sites are still being excavated to this day, with recent discoveries including the necropolis ... CC BY 2.0/flickr McCoy was apparently convinced that huge waves, or tsunamis, had been ...

Here are five things that make it stand out (as well as a listing of the latest news and analysis about DeepSeek). March 13, 2025: The release of DeepSeek roiled the world of generative AI last ...

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TOKYO -- Families of people killed in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami visited beaches and memorial cenotaphs in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region on Tuesday to pray for the souls of the ...

UNESCO’s role now includes prevention, preparing communities to respond to tsunami threats and fostering the latest tracking and detection technologies ... The exercise, which in 2019 involved up to ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected] The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...