The huge tsunami triggered by the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake destroyed coastal towns near Sendai in Japan, washing such things as houses and cars into the ocean. Projections of where this debris might ...

About 70 percent of the debris sank off of Japan's coast, leaving 1.5 million tons to float across the ocean. How much of that is still floating is anybody's guess. [Tracking Tsunami Debris ...

The Japan Ministry of Environment estimated that 5 million tons of debris washed into the ocean after the tsunami that killed thousands of people. It said about 70 percent of the debris sank near ...

Debris initially collected in a thick mass in the ocean after tsunamis ... The debris came from a large swath of Japan's northeastern coast, not only near the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant ...

HONOLULU – Tsunamis generated by the magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan last March dragged 3 million to 4 million tons of debris into the ocean after tearing up Japanese harbors and homes.

Four years after a tsunami devastated Japan’s coast, debris still washes up in Washington ... that have hitched a ride across the Pacific Ocean. Another barnacle-encrusted Japanese skiff ...

Floating debris from the Japan tsunami poses a threat to shipping traffic ... even tractor trailers bobbing in the ocean have become a threat to shipping traffic. "It's very challenging to ...

The project brings paying tourists to the debris field at a time when there's still concern in Japan about missing ... is debris from the ocean coming from events like tsunami—things that ...

HONOLULU — Lumber, boats and other debris ripped from ... U.S. West Coast before the tsunami, she said. Nikolai Maximenko, a University of Hawaii researcher and ocean currents expert, said ...

Japan which washed ashore in Oregon. AP WASHINGTON — Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami ...

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Fukushima, Japan, also triggered tsunami ... could not survive a trip across the ocean on floating debris. “We thought that that was impossible ...