Chua says that a Manila Trench tsunami could have greater repercussions for global trade than past events, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the costly 2011 Tohoku tsunami. "Since South China ...

Ten years ago today, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench, a subduction zone. Subduction occurs when an oceanic plate dives under another plate.

This came after an alert on aftershocks was issued following a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in northern Japan late Monday night.

Powerful waves set in motion by the magnitude-9.0 quake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, damaged the harbor in Crescent City, Calif. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) This month as Japan ...

A small Japanese fishing community devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 managed to recover from the disaster through cooperative community activity despite the propensity ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Huge tsunamis with waves as high as a four-story building could inundate the island of Oahu, washing out Waikiki Beach and flooding the island's main power plant, a new study finds.

(a) The global port network of liner services. Ports estimated to be damaged under (b) present sea levels (n = 11) and (c) SSP5 - 8.5 (Low confidence) sea level rise scenario by 2100 (n = 15). Red ...

WASHINGTON — This month as Japan commemorated the 10-year anniversary of a tsunami that killed thousands of people, the United States has been reckoning with the vulnerability of its own systems for ...