A barnacle-covered fishing boat that washed ashore this month in Crescent City has been confirmed as the first debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan to reach California's shores. The National Oceanic ...

March 11 marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Because millions of tons of debris flooded into the sea from this catastrophic event, it’s understandable ...

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Officials in Oregon are facing the daunting challenge of what to do with a Japanese ship dock, torn from its moorings by last year's tsunami, now washed up on a popular state beach. How did it float ...

A villager on the country’s northeastern coast repurposed rubble from the 2011 natural disaster to create Shiome, a community space and hiker hostel that’s still evolving 15 years later. The air is ...

The next time a motorcycle washes up on your local beach, there is a number to call and a location to email a photo. The state Ecology Department is asking beachcombers to throw away plastic foam, ...

Japan created the word tsunami to name those mysterious waves that seemed to materialize right off the coast. Author: Hokusai Katsushika Tsunami surges inland and pushes everything along with it, ...

If you live in Hawaii, California, British Columbia, Alaska or Baja California, here are some bad news: According to computer models made by scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, ...

A refrigerator-sized piece of ocean debris, possibly from the Japanese earthquake/tsunami two years ago, was removed by helicopter from the Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve shoreline Monday. After ...

Tsunami from the earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula shocked many residents, including a 41-year-old man celebrating ...