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Tsunami Alert for Entire Western US Coast Cancelled as Wave Thankfully Fails to Show Up

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A tsunami watch issued for the entire US west coast after a large earthquake off the Alaskan coast Tuesday morning has been canceled, reports wbtv.com. The quake struck 175 miles southeast of Kodiak, AK.ย ย Kodiak officials warned residents to evacuate if they lived in low-lying areas and people reported on social media that the quake was felt hundreds of miles away, […]
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VIDEO: Tsunami Hits Greenland | 4 Killed, Dozens Injured, 11 Homes Washed Away

On June 17th 2017, one of the largest tsunamis ever recorded hit Greenland, but you probably didn’t hear about it. 4 people were killed, dozens were injured and 11 homes were washed away. Tsunamis areย mostly caused by large earthquakes and are more destructive than mega-tsunamisย which are caused by landslides and water displacement. ย In Greenland, a landslide registered a 4.1 magnitude […]
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Five Years After The Fukushima Disaster And The Pacific Ocean Isn’t A Dead Zone

According to the Annual Review of Marine Sciences, when the Tohoku tsunami struck Japan in March 2011, large amounts of radioactive material was vented from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors. 80% of that radioactive material was thought to have fallen in the ocean along with more being washed in that initially landed on land. The main source of radiation released […]
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