Tsunami News

High levels of toxic strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that operates the facility said on Wednesday Strontium-90 is a by-product of the fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors as well as nuclear weapons, according to the website of the U.S. Environmental ... (more)

B.C. artists will be leading the charge at this year's Western Canadian Music Awards, with 57 nominations in 29 categories, the most of any Western province.

New tsunami maps being reviewed in northwest Oregon show there's less high ground than previously thought if residents have to flee the most serious earthquake and tsunami projected.

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Tokyo, June 18, 2013 - - Diginfo TV has posted a video on Iwanuma City's project to create forests to reduce tsunami damage.

Dozens of new and returning series are offering fresh episodes throughout the summer.

"It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a professor at the University of Hartford who led an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis.

The Department of Environmental Conservation said the gift is from the Hokkaido Development Engineering Center and members of the International Association of Cold Region Development Studies.

Maybe the fastest man in the world could run a 6-minute mile for 6 miles while a terrifying wall of water chased him through a coastal city.

Peter Mansbridge displayed warmth and humour at the Reader's Digest Lecture at Concordia's D.B. Clarke Theatre on May 31. Peter Mansbridge, CBC News' chief correspondent, recently celebrated 25 years as anchor of the broadcaster's nightly news program, The National.

A tsunami in this area of the Western Indian Ocean could threaten the coastlines of India, Iran, Oman, Pakistan and further afield.

Since adoption of Montana's 1972 constitution our governors have vetoed 293 bills in 21 legislative sessions.

An unidentified girl, foot bandaged, is carried from a Coast Guard boat to an ambulance as the first group of survivors from nearly destroyed Gulf coast town of Cameron docked in Lake Charles yesterday morning.

U.S. lawmakers are pushing for legislation that would aid Oregon coastal communities dealing with the cleanup of debris from the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan.

TASMANIA may soon be used as a launch pad for giant helium balloons, which Google hopes will provide internet access to the 4.7 billion people around the world who cannot access the web.

Waikoloa Development Co. is seeking a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to rebuild the Kuualii fishpond rock wall, dredge sand from the pond and restore the beach at Anaehoomalu Bay in South Kohala.

The Draupner wave , a single giant wave measured on New Year's Day 1995, finally confirmed the existence of freak waves, which had previously been considered near-mythical Rogue waves are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that occur far out in sea, and are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners .

West Virginia is spending nearly three times more than it expected for every mile of fiber-optic cable being built as part of a statewide high-speed Internet expansion project funded by the federal stimulus, according to a report.

ATHENS: A moderate 6.2-magnitude earthquake rumbled off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey, but there was no immediate warning of a tsunami.

A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake was registered off the Pacific coast of Nicaragua around midday Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.