In consultation with the City, the Tsunami Vulnerability Consultant Group identified key analyses to be conducted and specific cartographic outputs to be produced. Our scenario is an M9.0 subduction ...

You know, I think a lot of us have a lot of wrong notions about what a tsunami looks like. You know, in the films, it looks like this giant wave, and it's actually much more like a wall of water.

An initial tsunami wave approximately 1 meter (3.2 feet) high made landfall within 30 minutes of the earthquake, the Associated Press reported, citing Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV.

8, 1817, according to newspapers of the time. Turns out, that tidal wave was actually a tsunami, launched by a powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake that struck at about 4:30 a.m. ET near the northern ...