For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Understanding these ancient tsunami dynamics is not just about reconstructing the past. With modern asteroid-tracking programs in place, scientists are keenly aware of the potential for future ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

This extraordinary series of over 1,200 earthquakes, which experts feared could end in a massive quake and tsunami, brought alive her 25 years of research on ancient tsunamis and seismic events in the ...

Gelfenbaum G. and Jaffe B. 2003. Erosion and Sedimentation from the 17 July, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami. Pure and Applied Geophysics 160:1969–1999. Goodman ...

A species of clam discovered in Funakoshi Bay, Iwate Prefecture, after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster was judged to have been 135 years old when it died, ranking it as among the oldest ...

For those traveling through Japan’s Iwate prefecture, a visit to Takata Matsubara Memorial Park for Tsunami Disaster and the ...

Future research would involve digging on the Falklands to try to find deposits from ancient tsunami. “You maybe even want to sample the drift to see what it consists of, what the shear strength ...

A new study by Greek scientists has warned of the possibility of a tsunami occurring in the central Aegean between Santorini ...