The tsunami breaches an embankment and flowing into the city of Miyako Jiji Press/AFP via Getty Images It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest ... almost all of Alaska and caused ...

A tsunami warning was lifted hours after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska in the US. The quake hit 280km (173 miles) south-east of Kodiak, at a depth of 25km, at 00:31 ...

It also caused a series of tsunamis, with the biggest waves hitting Tohoku ... farming areas and entire towns were destroyed. 2. Alaska, USA, 1964: Magnitude 9.2 On March 27, 1964, the United ...

Japan’s biggest earthquake hit the country on March 11, 2011. The underwater quake hit around 80 miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan’s biggest island. Hundreds of aftershocks followed in the ensuing ...

Thousands gathered in mourning on Thursday, Dec. 26, to mark two decades since the world’s largest tsunami. On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the modern era, a 9.1 ...