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U.S. And New Zealand Secretly Tested 'Tsunami Bomb' Designed To Trigger Tidal Waves And Destroy Coastal Cities In WWII -- Daily ...

Why Earthquake Off Sumatra Did Not Trigger A Devastating Tsunami -- The Guardian Main shock was magnitude 8.6 but horizontal seafloor moveme...

Tsunami Projections Offer Bleak Fate for Many Japanese Towns -- New York Times KUROSHIO, Japan — The simulations shocked this sleepy communi...

One Year After Japan Tsunami: Roads Repaired, But Lives Still Disrupted -- Christian Science Monitor One year after the Japan tsunami, earth...

(Click on image to Enlarge) Disaster strikes: The tsunami rushes over a protective sea wall and towards tanks of heavy oil for the Unit 5 of...

From Futurity: U. SOUTHAMPTON (UK)—Researchers have uncovered clues as to why some undersea earthquakes generate huge tsunamis. Their findin...

Focused spread (Image: NOAA) From New Scientist: The earthquake in Chile on Saturday was one of the biggest the world has felt in the past c...

Debris in Pelluhue, Chile, after high waves hit. VICTOR RUIZ CABALLERO/REUTERS From The Independent: It is fortunate that one of the biggest...

From Wired Science: Tsunamis may be detectable with underwater fiber-optic cables, according to a new detailed model of the electrical field...

The island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Darker blue indicates deeper waters (up to 5,000 m); light blue/white indicated shallow waters and sea lev...

A combination photo shows (top) a view of the damage near Baiturrahman mosque December 27, 2004, the day after a tsunami hit the Indonesian ...

Photo: West Coast Risk: Some 350,000 California residents are at risk if a tsunami strikes there. istockphoto From Scientific American: The...

From The New York Times: The massive eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea more than 3,000 years ago produced killer waves that ra...

From Live Science: The volcanic explosion that obliterated much of the island that might have inspired the legend of Atlantis apparently tri...

The terrible Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 was just the latest and greatest mega-wave to wash over the planet. It taught us a lot, however, t...

The city of Sitka, Alaska. The potential for a huge Pacific Ocean tsunami on the West Coast of America may be greater than previously though...

From Times Online: The eastern Indian Ocean could be due for another earthquake rivalling the one that caused the deadly tsunami in December...

December 28, 2004 From MSNBC: Tsunami from huge quake could destroy 5,600 homes, kill 850 people Newly discovered tsunami deposits suggest t...