Penny Palfrey swam across the 42 km Molokai Channel after a major earthquake and tsunami hit northern Japan and the Hawaiian Islands
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "In the early spring morning in 1991, I was standing on the beach at Ajigaura Beach in Ibaraki Prefecture. Ajigaura is a great surfing and ocean swimming beach is north of Tokyo and adjacent to Fukushima where a 9.1 magnitude earthquake led to a large 13-15 meter high (43-49 foot) tsunami that subsequently
The DART Buoy Array is a global network of tsunameters and surface buoys that serve as an early warning detection system for tsunamis. DART stands for Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis and is a system of ocean floor-anchored tsunameters and surface buoys that are deployed across the oceans to form a monitoring and communications network. The
The massive tsunami rocked northern Japan on March 11th 2011. After a 454-day journey across the Pacific Ocean, a dock washed ashore on Agate Beach in Oregon. Innumerable household items, commercial good and industrial products are currently drifting across thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean. The first bits of debris have landed in North America, but
How do you know a tsunami is coming if you are at the beach? There are two ways: a natural warning or an official warning. An unusual lowering of the ocean water that exposes the sea floor is a dramatic warning that a tsunami or tidal waves are coming. The drawback of water is followed by a strong surge of water. There can also be an earthquake or loud
Japan has 108 active volcanoes and experiences destructive earthquakes and
tsunamis several times each century.
During these times, the strong character of the Japanese people shines.
They help each other, they reach out, they form even closer bonds with their neighbors and countrymen as they struggle in their recovery
