Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In light of the recent tsunami and earthquake news – re: the 8.8-magnitude tremor that struck off the Russian coast, sending ...

A massive tsunami generated by a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck Japan's coast within 30 minutes. Waves as high as 130 feet spilled over seawalls. Within days, three nuclear reactors were disabled.

New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...

On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck Japan’s coast, triggering one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The Fukushima Daiichi power plant was overwhelmed by the waves, ...

Fifteen years ago, on March 11, 2011, four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan were destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that still impacts the world today.