If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

Japan has developed an undersea warning system that can detect earthquakes 20 seconds before they reach land, significantly ...

The “megathrust” earthquake’s undersea magnitude was 9.0, recorded as one of the worst in Japan’s history. It began on the Pacific seabed 45 miles away from the eastern coast of Japan, as reported by ...

Japan's new earthquake-sensing nervous system spans ocean fault zones, boosting tsunami warnings by up to 20 minutes and ...

The nation’s main tsunami detection system experienced an outage March 9 when a broken water pipe in ... the anniversary of the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that generated the Tohoku tsunami in Japan.

The Japan tsunami was detected by radar in Japan and California, the first time a tsunami has been detected by radar. The study teams hopes their work could lead to new early warning systems.

By Japan News. May 30, 2024 . Share on Facebook; Share on X; Share by email; TOKYO >> A new drone-based tsunami detection system is launching this year in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, to ...

The United States’ predominant tsunami detection system suffered a nearly week-long outage this month, overlapping with the 10-year anniversary of Japan’s Tohoku tsunami, which left tho… ...

On the other hand, the proposed ionosphere-based tsunami detection system may only require the propagation time and data-processing delays of only up to about 15–30 minutes. GPS receivers are able to ...

The tsunami was the aftermath of the initial quake, which gashed and displaced a 150-mile-long and 50-mile-wide area of the ocean’s crust, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The stunning tsunami warning map above, issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency Saturday, shows the country's entire coastline under threat, with many areas on the Pacific side facing possible ...

Historic earthquake and tsunami on Friday is a reminder that data collection and early warning systems have improved since the 2004 Indian Ocean catastrophe. Japan Tsunami Response Aided by High ...