How are species boundaries maintained in the face of environmental disturbance? This is not only a fundamental question in ...

One of the less-noticed effects of tsunamis, for humans at least, is the way they can carry species into unfamiliar territory ...

In light of the recent tsunami and earthquake news – re: the 8.8-magnitude tremor that struck off the Russian coast, sending tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean – the threat of tectonic shifts ...

The enormous Japan Trench produced the catastrophic 2011 earthquake and remains a major seismic threat.

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake, estimated at 8.9–9.0 on the Richter scale, rocked Japan. The quake, whose epicenter was the Oshikah Peninsula, triggered a 10-meter tsunami, which wiped out whole ...

Zuigan-ji Temple in Matsushima, one of the sites damaged in the 2011 tsunami (image via wikipedia.org) Beyond a rising death toll of over 10,800, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in northern ...

Japan has issued a tsunami advisory after an earthquake near its outlying islands. Officials say a potential tsunami could ...