The claim: Video shows tsunami wave hitting Suzu City in Japan on Jan. 1. A Jan. 1 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a large wave spilling onto a residential street and carrying ...

The moment Japanese coast guard crew went bow-first into the tsunami wave in the open ocean. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 14:17 EDT, 19 March 2011 ...

The height of a tsunami wave that struck a coastal city in Japan’s Iwate Prefecture on March 11 is now estimated to be 77.4 feet high, according to a field survey from the country’s Port and ...

"Tsunami" has been all over the news since a powerful earthquake sent a wall of water into northeastern Japan on March 11. It's a word that comes from Japan and dates from more than 1,000 years ago.

After the 2010 Chilean earthquake, almost exactly one year before the Tohoku disaster, Oki asked Japanese residents a set of questions related to tsunami preparedness.

The video: Many of the vivid videos to emerge from Japan's catastrophic tsunami have captured the large-scale destruction of the disaster — entire towns swept up by relentless waves, recorded by ...

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake, estimated at 8.9–9.0 on the Richter scale, rocked Japan. The quake, whose epicenter was the Oshikah Peninsula, triggered a 10-meter tsunami, which wiped out whole ...

An initial tsunami wave approximately 1 meter (3.2 feet) high made landfall within 30 minutes of the earthquake, the Associated Press reported, citing Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV.

On 11 March, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warned that a 3-metre-plus tsunami would hit northeastern Japan. In fact, the wave that came ashore stood more than 10 metres high -- reaching 50 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan says first wave of a tsunami is believed to have struck 2 of its southern islands after strong earthquake. Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson Didn’t Speak for 30 Years After ...

In March 2011, Japan endured the strongest earthquake in its recorded history followed by a severe tsunami. The Tohoku tsunami involved waves 40 meters/132 feet high and over 15,500 deaths.