With reports swirling of harassed geisha, parking-spot punch-ons and tourist litter killing sacred deer, it’s no wonder some ...

That’s essentially the advice Japan’s government had for the wave of Aussie tourists flooding into its heaving hotspots this holiday season. Obviously, they put it more politely than that.

as well as Japan’s southern Kochi prefecture. An initial tsunami wave approximately 1 meter (3.2 feet) high made landfall within 30 minutes of the earthquake, the Associated Press reported ...

Jan. 26, 2025, marks 325 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve learned about this largest fault system in the lower 48 states ...

JAPAN issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake ... as what happened in the horror 2011 wave that hit Fukushima. Masamasa Sato, chief of the crisis management department of ...

Oregon scientists are hoping to help the coastal communities survive a major inundation in various ways. One of those is ...

A larger wave had hit. Tetsuji’s body was found ... Ishikawa prefectural government after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The Jan. 1 tsunami was expected to reach the Ukai ...

A magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck Japan’s Kyushu region late ... the ocean may only rise by a foot or so, but as the tsunami approaches shallow water, the wave slows down and grows in height.

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake's preliminary magnitude at 6.8. The Japan ... tsunami advisory for Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures, with expected heights of about 1 meter. One tsunami wave ...