ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Items ranging in size from a 164-foot shrimping vessel to a soccer ball have already made their way into North American waters following the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.

A traffic police officer in Peru sets up a roadblock during a tsunami warning in La Punta, Callao province on July 30, 2025. Alerts were issued in countries across the Pacific, following a massive 8.8 ...

A barnacle-covered fishing boat that washed ashore this month in Crescent City has been confirmed as the first debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan to reach California's shores. The National Oceanic ...

HONOLULU (AP) -- Televisions, refrigerators, and construction beams dragged out to sea when a magnitude-9.0 earthquake hit Japan, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet to crash ashore last March could ...

SEATTLE (AP) - A Seattle oceanographer says some debris from Japan's tsunami and earthquake may wash up on the West Coast in about one to three years. Curt Ebbesmeyer says how fast the flotsam arrives ...

Seaview beachcomber Matt Mulvey is eager for debris from the Japanese tsunami to wash up on the Long Beach Peninsula. He hopes to find real glass fishing floats and buoys among the sea-trash swept ...

Dear EarthTalk: Is there any environmental risk from all that Japanese tsunami debris that is starting to wash up on the U.S. west coast? ¬ó Bailey Thigerson, Seattle, Wash. The Japanese government ...

HONOLULU (AP) - Tsunamis generated by the magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan last March dragged 3 million to 4 million tons of debris into the ocean after tearing up Japanese harbors and homes.

Discovered: Japan's Tsunami debris will hit U.S. shores in the next few months, more proof that our music listening habits are harmful, smelly feet attract mosquitoes, chimps understand each other's ...