M7.3 earthquake hits northeast of Japan – Tsunami warning lifted
Mario A. | Setyoufree News A strong earthquake shook northeastern Japan early Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and a tsunami warning was issued. The temblor was registered at a magnitude of 7.3 and struck at 5:18 p.m. local time (3:18 a.m. ET), according to the USGS. The quake struck about 200 miles southeast of Kamaishi, the agency [...]
Read More →Seismic survey reveals new tsunami hazards around New Zealand
Xinhua | ANI New Zealand scientists have discovered around 200 under-water fault lines capable of causing devastating tsunamis in a newly completed seismic survey around the country’s coasts. The discoveries brought the total number of known active fault sources in New Zealand waters to about 530, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) [...]
Read More →Australian coastline risks facing ‘destructive’ tsunamis
ANI Australian geology and emergency services have predicted that the Australian coastline is at risk of facing destructive tsunamis. Simulations show 9.0 earthquake in Indonesia could devastate Christmas Island and parts of northern WA. A 9.0 earthquake in New Zealand could send powerful waves into Sydney and Brisbane. According to telegraph.com.au, but geologists said that the overall [...]
Read More →Experts say M9 Nankai Trough earthquake would kill hundreds of thousands
AjwAsahi An offshore Pacific earthquake of the scale that hit Japan last year would trigger 34-meter tsunami, resulting in at least 323,000 deaths and devastating much of the coastline from Honshu to Kyushu, experts say. This grim scenario is the result of a radical reappraisal of a possible magnitude-9.1 earthquake in the Nankai Trough in [...]
Read More →Severity of Japanese tsunami explained
Scientists at Cambridge University say they’ve worked out why the tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011 was so much larger than expected.
Read More →Earthquakes Off Alaska Pose US Tsunami Risk
OurAmazingPlanet The risk of a deadly tsunami ravaging the United States is now leading scientists to investigate hazards posed by giant earthquakes off the Alaskan coast. Scientists are concentrating on the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, where the tectonic plate underlying the Pacific Ocean is diving underneath the continental plate underlying North America. Tsunamis can be caused by [...]
Read More →Japan earthquake and tsunami disturbed upper atmosphere: NASA
TheStar The massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Fukushima, Japan, last year wreaked havoc in the skies above as well, disturbing electrons in the upper atmosphere, NASA reported. The waves of energy from the quake and tsunami that were so destructive on the ground reached into the ionosphere, a part of the upper atmosphere that stretches from [...]
Read More →Volcano-Triggered ‘Mega Tsunamis’ Won’t Obliterate U.S. East Coast
Dave Mosher Txchnologist A tsunami triggered by landslides on the volcanic Canary Island of La Palma could crush the eastern U.S. seaboard — or not, according to the latest computer simulations. An active volcano called Cumbre Vieja dominates La Palma’s southern flank, and someday a gargantuan chunk of it may slough into the Atlantic Ocean. [...]
Read More →Small Earthquakes May Cause Surprisingly Big Tsunamis
OurAmazingPlanet Mysterious small tremors in the most earthquake-prone areas on Earthmay be the cause of surprisingly large tsunamis, researchers say. These findings might also shed light on the huge tsunami generated by the disastrous magnitude 9.0 quake that hit Japan in 2011. Nearly all of the 10 largest recorded earthquakes on Earth happened along subduction zones, where one of [...]
Read More →Caribbean again put on tsunami watch
JamaicaObserver A leading expert at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is urging the Caribbean’s 40 million people to be prepared for a tsunami, two years ahead of a planned early warning system for the region. Wendy Watson-Wright, assistant director-general and executive secretary of the UNESCO-Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, has agreed with other [...]
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