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Ghosts Of The Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone is a 2017 non-fiction book written by Richard Lloyd Parry, an English reporter who lived in Japan and reported about events there for years before the 2011 Japanese tsunami, in particular, the fatal decision-making leading to the drowning of the 74 students and 10 teachers of Ogawa Elementary School (石巻市立大川小学校).
Ryou-Un Maru (漁運丸, Fishing Luck) (also Ryō Un Maru [2]) was a Japanese fishing boat that was washed away from its mooring in Aomori Prefecture by the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and drifted across the Pacific Ocean. [1]
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The most important clue linking the tsunami in Japan and the earthquake in the Pacific Northwest comes from studies of tree rings (dendrochronology), which show that several "ghost forests" of red cedar trees in Oregon and Washington, killed by lowering of coastal forests into the tidal zone by the earthquake, have outermost growth rings that formed in 1699, the last growing season before the ...
In another tsunami catalog compiled after the 1933 Sanriku earthquake, the author referenced a 1903 publication which stated that a tsunami occurred on 11 June 1585, or Tensho 13th year, 5th month and 14th day. Meanwhile, another tsunami event on 18 January 1586, was recorded, possibly associated with the 1586 Tenshō earthquake . Because the ...
The Miracle Pine Tree (奇跡の一本松, Kiseki no Ippon matsu) was the lone surviving tree of the Takata Pine Forest, which suffered deadly damage from the Great East Japan Earthquake tsunami in March 2011.
An image of humans battling a Namazu. In Japanese mythology, the Namazu or Ōnamazu (大 鯰) is a giant underground catfish who causes earthquakes.. The creature lives under the islands of Japan and is guarded by the god Takemikazuchi enshrined at Kashima, who restrains the catfish with a stone.
Atwater has spent much of his career studying the likelihood of large earthquakes and tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In 2005, he published a book with others, "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700," that summarizes the evidence for an 8.7–9.2 M w megathrust earthquake in the Pacific Northwest on 26 January 1700, known as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.