ABC News
| Mar 27, 2013
A Google Street View car has been allowed into an abandoned town in the Fukushima exclusion zone. The images allow a "virtual homecoming" to the town for the 21,000 residents displaced by the tsunami and nuclear meltdown two years ago.
LinkAsia
| Mar 11, 2013
Japanese horror film director Hideo Nakata is best known for films in which characters are killed by an unseen force or haunted by a creepy presence. His newest film takes a different form however. LinkAsia's Nathalie Stucky reports on Nakata's la...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Dec 7, 2012
A 7.3 magnitude quake struck off northeast Japan Friday, shaking buildings as far away as Tokyo for more than a minute and triggering a tsunami alert in Fukushima and other areas devastated by last year's disaster. Two people were badly injured bu...
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ORF
| Feb 10, 2012
On 11 March 2011, Japan's worst ever natural disaster killed almost 20,000 people. This report reveals the controversy surrounding it and the pain of rebuilding under the fear of radioactivity.
LinkAsia
| Jun 22, 2012
The Japanese government and the hugely popular girl pop group AKB48 have teamed up to sell government bonds that will help pay for post-tsunami reconstruction. But as contributor Nicolas Ito reports, many Japanese wonder if AKB48 fans are the righ...
Associated Press
| Jun 8, 2012
More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands and washing millions of tons of debris into the Pacific Ocean, neither the US government nor West Coast states have a clear plan for how to clean up large and potentially toxic f...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 11, 2012
Indonesia has been hit by two major earthquakes off the coast of Aceh province.
A 8.2 magnitude aftershock came hours after an initial 8.7 magnitude quake.
It triggered a tsunami warning across the Indian ocean, but that has now been lifted.
Al...
Associated Press
| Mar 28, 2012
Recent investigation found one damaged reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has extremely high levels of radiation and very little water to help cool it down. Authorities haven't been able to probe two others that had...
AlertNet
| Mar 19, 2012
What happens during the first hours, days, weeks, and months following a major disaster? How does help arrive after a big earthquake, tsunami, flood, or storm? And how is aid money raised? AlertNet has the answers.
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...airport on March 14, days after an earthquake-triggered tsunami left the Japanese city in ruins. Swaddled in blankets, evacuated tsunami survivo...
— Dec 6, 2011 at 11:47 pm
The massive tsunami generated by the March 2011 earthquake off the coast of northeastern Japan was a "merging tsunami" — a type of tsunami long tho...
— Dec 8, 2012 at 04:58 am
The earthquake struck 10 kilometres beneath the seabed and 240 km offshore just after 5 p.m. local time, followed by several aftershocks, triggerin...
A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions, landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.
Tsunami waves do not resemble normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer. Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide, and for this reason they are often referred to as tidal waves. Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "wave train". Wave heights of tens of metres can be generated by large events. Although the impact of tsunamis is limited to coastal areas, their destructive power can be enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with over 230,000 people killed in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean.
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