About 18,000 people were listed as dead or missing in Japan following the quake and tsunami. The waves also reached locations on the other side of the Atlantic, hitting Hawaii, and the coasts of ...

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...

“Tsunami is a Japanese word,” said Syamsidik ... “Seeing what it was in real life is completely different.” The 2004 wave, Titov said, revealed that the world’s tsunami warning system ...