Causing 18,000 fatalities and great devastation in Japan, on March 11, 2011, a tsunami struck Japan that was triggered by a massive earthquake.

World Tsunami Awareness Day was the brainchild of Japan, which due to its repeated, bitter experience has over the years ...

Tsunami advisory (0.2 to 1 meter): People at sea will be at risk of being caught in fast currents. However, people on land ...

World Tsunami Awareness Day is celebrated every year on November 5 to increase awareness about the dangers of tsunamis and ...

World Tsunami Awareness Day is celebrated every year on November 5 to boost people's understanding of the harmful effects of ...

When an earthquake occurred on Sept. 24 in the waters near Torishima island, it set off a sense of urgency at the Japan Meteorological Agency office in Tokyo, nearly 600 kilometers north.

A teenager who survived for nine days trapped in rubble from the 2011 tsunami disaster later went into hiding from public view, embarrassed by “miracle rescue” descriptions of his ordeal.

Japan's Meteorological Agency is looking into the possibility of a tsunami in its country, after a volcano erupted near Indonesia ...

Officials in western Japan have held large-scale disaster drills ahead of the UN-designated World Tsunami Awareness Day on ...

In this way, an early warning concerning communities ... of 8.4 magnitude struck the Kii Peninsula in Japan, creating a devastating tsunami. Local elder Goryo Hamaguchi set rice sheaves on fire ...

KOCHI: Twenty years ago — on December 26, 2004 — deep beneath the Indian Ocean near the island of Sumatra, a 1,300km-long rupture occurred on the faultline betw ...

The Japanese people named the tsunami using two characters: tsu, meaning "harbour," and nami, meaning "wave." The term originated in Japan over 1,000 years ago. More than one hundred years ago ...