The video below is a small-scale demonstration of something almost impossibly large: how a megathrust earthquake can suddenly turn the ocean into a weapon. The basic mechanics are frighteningly simple ...
The Sunda Megathrust stretches roughly 3,400 miles beneath the Indian Ocean and produced the magnitude 9.1 earthquake that ...
It started with a violent earthquake—but that was only the beginning. Within minutes, a massive tsunami surged toward Japan’s coast, waves reaching over 100 feet high. Entire towns were wiped out in ...