The region is part of an area devastated by a deadly 9.0 quake and tsunami 11 years ago that caused nuclear reactor meltdowns, spewing massive radiation that still makes some parts uninhabitable.
57-year-old Lisala Folau narrated his amazing story to a radio channel after he survived 27 hours at sea to reach the shore. Tsunami waves hit Tonga on January 15 leading to destruction of property and breakdown of communication infrastructure.
New Zealand's military is sending much-needed drinking water and other supplies, but said the ash on the runway will delay the flight at least a day.
IMD Goa tweeted a barometer graph that showed a clear spike along the curve that regularly showed the regular diurnal recordings in wave form. The violent volcanic eruption on January 14 continued for over 12 hours and it again erupted for eight minutes the following day sending massive plumes of ash into the sky.
Satellite images showed a huge eruption, with a plume of ash, steam and gas rising like a mushroom above the blue Pacific waters. A sonic boom could be heard as far away as Alaska.
The Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano is located about 64 kilometers (40 miles) north of the capital, Nuku’alofa. In late 2014 and early 2015, a series of eruptions in the area created a small new island and disrupted international air travel to the Pacific archipelago for several days.
The US Tsunami Warning System issued a tsunami warning.
After a massive earthquake of 8.2 magnitude jolted Alaska, horrifying videos and pictures surfaced on the Internet. Perryville's viral videos show ripped roads and warning sirens blaring along the coastline.
An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scaled rocked Indonesia's North Sumatra province on Friday, but did not have the potential to trigger a tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said.
“One expects that floods can come during rainy season, but no one expects a tsunami,” he said on the rising cases of the novel coronavirus infection.
Japan fell quiet at 2:46 p.m. Thursday to mark the minute that an earthquake began 10 years ago, setting off a tsunami and nuclear crisis that devastated the country’s northeast coast in a disaster that one survivor said he fears people are beginning to forget.
New Zealand emergency services ordered coastal communities across large swathes of the North Island to evacuate Friday amid fears a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific would generate a tsunami.
It has been painful 16 years of waiting for the two parents who had lost their daughter and son to the huge tsunami waves that hit the Tamil Nadu coast including Car Nicobar island on December 26, 2004 morning.
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale jolted Japan's Aomori prefecture on Monday, but authorities did not issue a tsunami warning.
Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, or AFAD, raised the death toll in Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city, to 49 as rescuers pulled more bodies out of toppled buildings.
A Tsunami like devastation has been witnessed in Turkey's Izmir after an Earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 shook Greek island of Samos and Turkey's Aegean coast, US Geological Survey said on Friday.
Turkish media showed wreckage of a multiple-story building, with people climbing it to start rescue efforts. Smoke rose from several spots.
Odisha has become the first state in the Indian Ocean region to get two coastal villages 'tsunami ready', said an official on Thursday.
A 5.3-Magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's Fukushima prefecture on Tuesday. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor was centred offshore, with its epicentre at a latitude of 37.5 degrees north and a longitude of 141.5 degrees east, and at depth of 50 km, reports Xinhua news agency.
Japan Earthquake, Tsunami Warning Latest: According to the warning by a group of experts including scientists, tsunami waves as high as 30 metres could be triggered in northern Japan if an earthquake of magnitude 9 occurs along the sea trenches of the pacific coast.
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