The shallow tremor off the Kamchatka Peninsula damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan's eastern seaboard − devastated by a 9.0 magnitude ...

Memories are more recent – and much more raw – in Japan, where the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake struck with a ...

Tsunami warnings that blanketed the west coast July 29 prompted memories of a 1958 wave that struck Alaska, the largest ever recorded.