Careful engineering of low, plant-covered hills along shorelines can mitigate tsunami risks with less disruption of coastal life and lower costs compared to seawalls. In…
Where tectonic plates meet, a change in angle. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed off Japan–the most powerful quake…
Deducing the scale of tsunamis from the ’roundness’ of deposited gravel. Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University and Ritsumeikan University have found a link between the…
Over a century after the Romans gave up control of what’s today Geneva, Switzerland, in 563 A.D., a deadly tsunami on Lake Geneva poured over…
Something interesting happened in the skies of Alabama recently. You might say that it made waves even. Wave shaped clouds. It’s an effect known as…