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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) announces that a significant, magnitude 8.7 earthquake took place off the west coast of northern Sumatra, in Indonesia, at 08:38:38 UTC (04:38 EDT) today.
Officials with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center immediately issued a tsunami warning for several countries, including... |
11 April 2012
05:51 GMT |
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As a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck Japan on March 11, American and European satellites were monitoring the Pacific Ocean, looking for signs of tsunamis. In addition to seeing the waves develop and wipe out the country's coastlines, they also saw the first-ever hints of a merging tsunami.
Such a natural event... |
6 December 2011
05:49 GMT |
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An analysis conducted by researchers at the Stanford University, in the United States, reveals the reasons why the magnitude 9 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 caused such a massive tsunami.According to the investigators, the unusual fault lines located northeast of the capital Tokyo ruptured in a very unusua... |
25 May 2011
03:31 GMT |
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The village of Aneyoshi, in Japan, was spared the wrath of the tsunami that hit the country on March 11 because its inhabitants listened to the warnings set in stone by their ancestors – a large rock telling people not to build their homes below that point.Warnings such as this one are not at all rare in Japan.... |
21 April 2011
04:55 GMT |
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According to experts in geology, the West Coast of the United States is in desperate need of an early warning system against earthquakes. The system could also be used to predict if and when a tsunami will strike following such events.The conclusions belong to scientists who attended a summit held at the University o... |
6 April 2011
10:56 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the massive earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, geologists, physicists and planetary scientists have began an ample campaign to determine what went wrong with the tectonic plates that ruptured during the magnitude 9.0 disaster. Following the 1995 Kobe earthquake, experts were convinced that ... |
23 March 2011
09:01 GMT |
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The United States have more coastline that any other nation on Earth, and the country is exposed to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, in addition to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Residents in these areas should not take the threat of tsunamis lightly, authorities warn.Experts with the US National Oceanic a... |
22 March 2011
06:34 GMT |
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As Japan was being severely affected by the March 11 tremor and tsunamis, a Japanese astronaut was carrying on with his preparations for a six-month stay in space at a facility in the United States. Though given the option, the would-be space flyer decided to carry on with the mission.Eleven days ago, a magnitude 9.0... |
22 March 2011
04:01 GMT |
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Following the March 11 earthquake that struck Japan, authorities and the population alike have been caught in a whirlwind of activities that need to be performed immediately, such as relief response, clean-up, search and rescue and so on. The psychological damage of the tremor will develop later on.At least this is t... |
18 March 2011
10:02 GMT |
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Emergency responders in Japan have began using helicopters to try and maintain temperatures within manageable limits at reactor #3 a the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) away from Tokyo. The situation at this particular building was degrading rapidly, and so authorities decided t... |
17 March 2011
09:08 GMT |
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As emergency responders struggle to keep three reactors at a Japanese nuclear power plant from going into meltdown, experts are analyzing the chain of events that led to this situation in the first place. The fact that it happened shows that you can never be too careful when building a nuclear reactor. The incident i... |
16 March 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Perched some 354 kilometers (220 miles) above the planet's surface, the International Space Station (ISS) provides an amazing vantage point for high-resolution photography. Unfortunately, astronauts aboard recently had the task of imaging the extent of the damage caused by the March 11 earthquake. The tremor str... |
16 March 2011
04:09 GMT |
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The disaster currently unfolding at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan could have been prevented, had the reactors been constructed more recently, and with more advanced technology.Scientists say that the six boiling-water reactors (BWR) at the facility are of an old design, that is not too stable, an... |
15 March 2011
12:02 GMT |
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Civil engineers say that the situation Japan finds itself in now can be used as a starting point for developing even more advanced defense networks, against earthquakes and tsunamis. Even if the Asian nation is widely considered to be the most prepared in the world when it comes to dealing with the effects of such ca... |
15 March 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Over the past three days, three explosions rocked the reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The facility was heavily affected by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off the nation's shorelines on March 11. Three reactors at the plant are now going into meltdown.Japanese officials ... |
15 March 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Tsunamis are oftentimes produced when earthquakes strike beneath the sea. They are impressive waves that can leave behind a huge trail of devastation, as evidenced by the recent one that struck Japan. Experts now take a look at how these waves form and behave once they reach land. Their name means harbor wave in Japa... |
14 March 2011
04:33 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the March 11 tremor that devastated Japan, the country is currently trying to come to terms with the consequences that the most powerful earthquake in the nation's history had. Among them is the explosion that affected a nuclear power plant reactor, and is currently endangering another. The F... |
14 March 2011
02:58 GMT |
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Yesterday evening, on Sunday, January 2, a large earthquake shook the grounds near the city of Temuco, in Chile. The tremor had an intensity of 7.1 degrees of magnitude of the Richter scale.The devastation struck at 3:20 EST (2020 GMT), but thus far no official reports on casualties or material damages have been made... |
3 January 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Back in 2004, when the massive Indian Ocean earthquakes and subsequent tsunami hit Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, many people were saved when they clung on to mangrove trees in shoreline forests. Now, experts look at other benefits these forests bring.The natural disaster that struck these nations killed a... |
3 November 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Experts announce that a massive earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on October 25, at a depth of about 20.6 kilometers (12.8 miles) below the ocean crust. The magnitude 7.7 tremor occurred at 9:42 pm local time (14:42 UTC) on Monday, and generated a 10-foot (3.3-meter) tsunami that struck Pagai Island. The a... |
27 October 2010
03:52 GMT |
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The results of a new scientific study would appear to suggest that the area now housing New York City was slammed by a large tsunami some 2,000 years ago. The deluge was most likely caused by an asteroid impact, the researchers explain.Even if the causes for tsunamis are now known to be earthquakes and volcanic activ... |
26 October 2010
09:51 GMT |
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Planetary scientists have discovered that tsunamis are able to produce disturbances in the Earth's atmosphere as well when they occur. Until now, experts believed that the phenomenon only had devastating effects on the land masses it struck, but they are now beginning to turn their attention towards the sky. The... |
13 October 2010
06:11 GMT |
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According to new seismologic data published in the latest issue of the top-rated scientific journal Nature, it would appear that the 2009 tsunami which struck Samoa and Tonga was produced by not one or two, but three consecutive earthquakes.As we were also telling you yesterday, it was only recently that experts at t... |
19 August 2010
03:53 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new finding, a team of experts managed to establish that the devastating tsunami which struck the southwest Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga last fall was not caused by one, but by two massive earthquakes. At this point, details are sketchy, in the sense that scientists don't really know wh... |
18 August 2010
10:45 GMT |
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A group of investigators spearheaded by experts at NASA managed recently to demonstrate the basic elements of a new type of tsunami prediction system. Their approach relies on a number of scientific instruments, which are capable of conducting earthquake analysis with high speed, and then calculate the risk of a poss... |
15 June 2010
06:16 GMT |
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As reported earlier, the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest is about to experience a major earthquake. Experts have calculated that the area has a 33 percent chance of suffering the effects of a large tremor within the next 50 years. In immediate response to this new study, a small coastal community in... |
25 May 2010
07:03 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the January 12, magnitude-7 earthquake that struck the nation of Haiti last month, two deadly tsunamis formed in the waters off the island. These waves naturally traveled until they met land, and formed walls of water up to three meters in height. The announcement was made on February 24 in Portla... |
26 February 2010
02:47 GMT |
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Scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Colorado have recently discovered that the vast network of communication cables that can be found today on the ocean floor have the ability to detect the electrical signals generated by tsunamis. This is made possible by... |
25 January 2010
06:29 GMT |
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According to recent numbers released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), earthquakes killed more than 1,700 people last year. Of these individuals, most perished in southern Sumatra, Indonesia, on September 30, when the powerful tremor that struck the region killed 1,117 people. The United Nations Office for Coordina... |
11 January 2010
05:29 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have observed elusive formations on the surface of the Sun, but have attributed them to being mere optical illusions, caused by the constant motion of the star's atmosphere. Just recently, the twin STEREO spacecraft managed to demonstrate that this was, in fact, not the case, and that ... |
26 November 2009
03:01 GMT |
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The trickiest thing about tsunamis, the large waves that cause massive devastation when they reach the beaches, is that they can travel very fast, at 500 kilometers per hour, under the ocean surface, and not be visible on the surface until a certain set of conditions is met. Researchers from the US National Oceanic a... |
28 July 2009
03:01 GMT |
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Experts from the Durham University in the United Kingdom, the University of Utah and Plafker Geohazard Consultants have recently finished conducting a new study on the west coast of North America, which has concluded that the potential for devastating tsunamis is much larger than originally estimated. The team believ... |
20 July 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a growing number of researchers around the world have argued that the “U” and “V”-shaped structures – also known as chevrons – that can be seen on some coastal lines are the result of megatsunamis, caused by asteroids or comets impacting the surface of the ... |
29 April 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Newcastle University experts have only recently devised a groundbreaking mathematical model that could potentially be used to assess the risk of a tsunami occurring, to determine which area is most likely to get hit and in what time frame the destructive wave will reach the coast. It goes without saying that such a m... |
1 April 2009
08:50 GMT |
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