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Listen to the Chelyabinsk fireball's infrasound tsunami
  You've probably seen and heard at least one video of February's fireball exploding over Cheylabinsk, Russia. The shock wave from entry and subsequent break up of the meteoroid blew out thous...
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Tsunami-hit towns still barren as rebuilding lags

Tsunami-hit towns still barren as rebuilding lags Like tens of thousands of people who lost everything in the tsunami that pulverized Japan's northeastern coast two years ago, 83-year-old Hide Sato is living in one-room temporary housing, and longing for a home of her own.

March 07, 2013

8.0 quake in South Pacific prompts 1-meter tsunami

SYDNEY (AP) — A powerful earthquake in the South Pacific generated a tsunami Wednesday that prompting warnings to several island nations and sent residents fleeing for higher ground.

By Associated Press , February 06, 2013

Japan spent rebuilding money on unrelated projects

SENDAI, Japan (AP) — About a quarter of the $148 billion budget for reconstruction after Japan's March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster has been spent on unrelated projects, including subsidies for a contact lens factory and research whaling.

By Elaine Kurtenbach, AP Business Writer , October 31, 2012

Japan marks 1 year since quake, tsunami disaster

For 70-year-old Toshiko Murakami, memories of the terrifying earthquake and tsunami that destroyed much of her seaside town and swept away her sister brought fresh tears Sunday, exactly a year after the disaster.

March 12, 2012

Toll from Japan disasters over 8,400

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's police agency says more than 8,400 people are dead and nearly 13,000 are listed as missing after last week's earthquake and tsunami.

March 20, 2011

Minnesotans report from tsunami scene in Hawaii

It wasn’t exactly how Chris Oleske and her fiancé, Nick Van Pelt, expected to spend their last day in paradise.

By By Beth Rickers , Forum Communications co. , March 12, 2011

Not panicking in paradise: Minnesotans report from tsunami scene in Hawaii

MAUI, Hawaii — It wasn’t exactly how Chris Oleske and her fiancé, Nick Van Pelt, expected to spend their last day in paradise.

By Beth Rickers, Forum Communications Co. , March 11, 2011

Tsunami waves sweep Hawaii, no major damage yet

Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches before dawn Friday but didn't cause any major damage after devastating an earthquake-ravaged Japan and sparking evacuations as far away as the U.S. western coast.

By JAYMES SONG, Associated Press , March 11, 2011

Remembering the 2004 tsunami

Remembering the 2004 tsunami

December 27, 2010

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Indonesia hit by deadly tsunami, volcanic eruption

A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia — spasms from the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” which spawns disasters from deep within the Earth.

October 27, 2010

Tsunami sweeps away towns on Chilean coast

Tsunami sweeps away towns on Chilean coast When the shaking stopped, Marioli Gatica and her extended family huddled in a circle on the floor of their seaside wooden home in this gritty port town, listening to the radio by a lantern’s light. They heard firefighters urging Talcahuano’s citizens to stay calm and stay inside. They heard nothing of a tsunami — until it slammed into their house with an unearthly roar about an hour after Saturday’s magnitude 8.8 quake.

By By Michael Warren and Roberto Candia, The Associated Press , March 02, 2010

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Ocean-crossing tsunami lightly swipes Asian coasts

Ocean-crossing tsunami lightly swipes Asian coasts A tsunami that raced across the Pacific swiped island nations and Asian coasts lightly Sunday, proving to be more spectacle than destructive force for communities that had hours to prepare after Chile’s devastating earthquake.

By By Eric Talmadge, The Associated Press , March 01, 2010

Scientists defend warning after tsunami nonevent

HONOLULU (AP) — The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that ``urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.'

February 28, 2010

Tsunami advisory canceled in final U.S. area

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A tsunami advisory has been canceled in the last U.S. area that had been under any sort of alert following the Chilean earthquake.

February 28, 2010

Tsunami races across Pacific, threatens Hawaii

EWA BEACH, Hawaii (AP) — A tsunami triggered by the Chilean earthquake raced across the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, threatening Hawaii as it rushed toward the U.S. West Coast and hundreds of islands from the bottom of the planet to the top.

By Jaymes Song , February 27, 2010

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