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A tsunami (plural: tsunamis or tsunami; from , lit. "harbor wave";
Read More at Wikipedia ›Thousands of people in three Oregon coastal communities are holding their first tsunami evacuation drill, stirred to action by the 2011 tsunami that devastated coastal towns in Japan.
Coos Bay Fire Chief Stan Gibson said the vivid TV images of last year's tsunami in Japan have made people on the Oregon Coast take the possibility much more seriously than about 10 years ago, when new signs laying out tsunami evacuation routes were greeted with complaints they would just scare the tourists.."Seeing seawalls being breached, seeing buildings and cars being tossed around like nothing, I think that really got peoples' attention," he said.The 2004 tsunami in Sumatra triggered federal legislation that is helping the West Coast get ready for a big one, paying for a new set of tsunami maps in Oregon, and evacuation drills in coastal communities up and down the coast, said Rick Wilson, a senior engineering geologist with the California Geological Survey. The Tsunami Warning Education Act is due to ...
Study: Japanese could become theoretically extinct
Japan has a problem, a lack of children, and it seems likely there will be even fewer in the future.Japanese researchers have now warned of a doomsday scenario if it...
A teenager who lost his home in Japan's devastating tsunami now knows that one prized possession survived: a football that drifted all the way to Alaska.Officials fr...
It must have been a wild ride. Japanese media say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle lost in last year's tsunami has washed up on a Canadian island about 6,400 kilometers ...
It must have been a wild ride. Japanese media say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle lost in last year's tsunami has washed up on a Canadian island about 4,000 miles away....
Federal scientists say that a volleyball and soccer ball that washed ashore on an island may be the first pieces of debris to arrive in Alaska from last year's tsuna...
Federal scientists say that a volleyball and soccer ball that washed ashore on an island may be the first pieces of debris to arrive in Alaska from the last year's t...
Dangerous trash
TOKYO-- The first look inside one of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear reactors showed radiation, steam and rusty metal surfaces scarred by 10 months' exposure to high tem...
James Carafano discusses the strategy that could keep US involved for another 10 years
Raw video: Cannon fired at unmanned Japanese fishing boat in Pacific Ocean
With more older drivers hitting America's roads every day, loved ones and lawmakers alike face the dilemma of whether -- or when -- to take away grandpa's car keys.R...
Tom Paris called encouragement over his picket fence to about 400 small school children walking past his house in line in this Oregon coastal community's first tsuna...
Last year's crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He's livi...
A year after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima disaster, a United Nations agency preparing a report on the health effects says none of the six former...
Officials at a national refuge say more than two dozen floats — many with Asian writing and logos — have been found on a spit of land that juts out off northwest Was...
A year after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima, the World Health Organization says several areas near the plant had radiation above cancer-causing levels but mos...
All-Star panel weighs in
Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer ex...
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