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The seven enormous coral chunks, as huge as a house, that have been cast away on Tonga's western shore may be linked to a giant volcano-triggered tsunami wave, claim scientists. On the remote island of Tongatapu, situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, researchers found evidence of an ancient natural catast... |
25 September 2008
05:43 GMT |
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According to a new study, the 9.3 magnitude earthquake that took place in the Indian Ocean in late 2004 and that was said to have unleashed the energy equivalent of 1.3 billion tons of TNT, or 100,000 Hiroshima bombs, killing over 225,000 people in the outcome of the resulted tsunami, could have generated other earth... |
26 May 2008
06:09 GMT |
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Solar tsunamis were first discovered by ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory during the late 1990s, when the spacecraft was launched. Solar tsunamis are in fact solar filaments which sweep across the surface of the Sun in a tsunami-like fashion, releasing great quantities of energy in very short periods of t... |
2 April 2008
09:45 GMT |
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Don't think that tsunamis are something connected only to the Indo-Pacific areas and that summering on the Mediterranean shores is safe. A mega-tsunami devastated eastern Mediterranean in 365 A.D. And this could repeat. A new research published in "Nature Geoscience" has detected the geological fault off the coa... |
11 March 2008
05:32 GMT |
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Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of the Atlantis, first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago, is about a real ancient civilization destroyed by the sea. The Atlantic Ocean got its name from Atlantis, as many subsequent civilizations placed ... |
10 December 2007
10:15 GMT |
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They are as mysterious as the European Atlantis: the submerged stones lying just below the waves splashing on the island of Yonaguni Jima could be the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis, an ancient unknown city sunk by a powerful earthquake about 2,000 years ago. Its main defender is Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at t... |
24 September 2007
04:40 GMT |
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The 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people and left half a million homeless in 12 countries. But a new one could be four times more disastrous, killing over a million people in South Asia's Bay of Bengal, but its date cannot be precisely predicted: it could strike Myanmar and Bangladesh in the next few decades or in... |
6 September 2007
05:11 GMT |
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They did not even know what struck them, but a tsunami was what hit an England shore 400 years ago, bringing about the deadliest natural disaster in the British history. The massive flood on January 30, 1607 went over the Bristol Channel (southwestern England), submerging over 190 square miles (500 square km) of lan... |
9 May 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Any myth bears a grain of truth and is not just about some stories invented by the human mind. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of Atlantis, the city state engulfed by the sea waters, was first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago and has been firing the popular imagination f... |
20 April 2007
06:18 GMT |
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Known as aurora borealis in northern latitudes (after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind) and as aurora australis in the South (australis meaning "of the South"), the beautiful lights in the sky are now known to be caused by the collision of charged particles (electrons), found in t... |
12 April 2007
08:58 GMT |
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The last one has just occurred in the Solomon Islands, taking with it at least 20 victims. But what's a tsunami?Tsunami ("harbor wave" in Japanese) represents a series of great sea waves provoked by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption and sometimes by the collision of a giant meteor with th... |
3 April 2007
03:31 GMT |
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