Tsunami warning: Was it a false alarm?
It was a typical sunny Thursday morning — and suddenly messages popped up on millions of cell phones across the Bay Area and Northern California: “Tsunami warning … you are …
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Tsunami warning for Bay Area after 7.0 earthquake hits Northern California coast
A tsunami warning has been lifted after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of northern California on Thursday morning, rattling cities as far south as Oakland, shutting down …
The Bureau of Meteorology alarms app users with ‘test’ tsunami alert
Panic briefly set in among Bureau of Meteorology app users on Wednesday morning when they received a tsunami warning for areas as far inland as Canberra. However, the shocked users …
Japan issues its first ‘megaquake’ warning after powerful tremor
An earthquake off the coast of Japan’s southern island of Kyushu prompted the government to issue its first-ever warning for a megaquake from an undersea trough running along a swath …
Japan issues first-ever alert over risk of Nankai Trough megaquake
The Meteorological Agency on Thursday issued its first-ever alert warning about a possible megaquake around the Nankai Trough, following a magnitude 7.1 quake that struck earlier in the day off …
Why Japanese researchers are looking to submarine cables for faster tsunami warnings
Hirogawa, Wakayama Pref. – When a massive earthquake struck off the coast of the Kii Peninsula, the people of Hiro didn’t have smartphone alerts or loudspeakers to warn them of …
MH17 Plane Crash, Tsunami Documentaries Acquired by Channel 4
DISASTER DOCUMENTARIES Content creation and distribution company BossaNova has sold two documentaries to Channel 4 in the U.K. The deals, brokered by Channel 4 acquisitions executive Felix Jones and BossaNova …
Spontaneous Tsunamis Could Take Out Cruise Ships
Photo: Royal Caribbean Landslide-generated tsunamis don’t come with any warning signs and they’re impossible to predict. Tsunami scientists are meeting with vessel operators in Alaska this month to put together …
Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum reaches one million visitors
Rikuzentakata, Iwate Pref. – The total number of visitors to the Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum in northeastern Japan, which is designed to share lessons learned from the March 2011 massive …
Strong quake shakes Japan’s hard-hit Noto Peninsula area
A strong earthquake registering an upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale struck the Noto Peninsula area of Ishikawa Prefecture early Monday, the Meteorological Agency said, just over five …