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Life

Hundreds of Japanese species floated to the US on tsunami debris

The 2011 Tohoku tsunami swept vast amounts of debris out into the Pacific, carrying over 280 species across to America

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Cars being carried on the back of a tsunami

Earth

Mystery of missing tsunamis explained by geological model

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Blue ice

Earth

Melting ice may be making mountains collapse in Greenland

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Torrents of water sweep over Japan's Fukushima prefecture in 2011

Earth

Seabed seismic sensors would have cut 2011 Japan tsunami toll

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boat at moorings. a bit dull

Earth

Floating lab drills 1.5km below sea floor to study megaquakes

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Building damaged by earthquake

Earth

Seismic shift: Can we cloak cities from earthquakes?

Features

A thermal image coloured red, yellow and green, with a blue channel running through it

Space

Mars was once devastated by giant 50-metre tsunamis

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Fukishima fishing

Humans

How two dead power stations fuel the art of catastrophe

CultureLab

I watched a flood of aid destroy a culture

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I watched a flood of aid destroy a culture

Opinion

Mangrove forest planted as tsunami shield

Earth

Mangrove forest planted as tsunami shield

The 2004 tsunami killed 227,000 people in Indonesia. Fred Pearce visits Aceh to see the living coastal defences meant to soak up the energy of future waves

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Earth

Weird waves help model tsunamis' destructive potential

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Earth

Sumatran zig-zag earthquake answers seismology puzzle

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Earth

Eyewitness videos reveal secrets of Japan's tsunami

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Undersea internet cables could detect tsunamis

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