Tsunamis can cause immense physical damage to ports, but the economic cost does not stop there. The resultant disruptions of shipping lanes result in billions of dollars in losses every day, as was ...

Opening in 2027, Sea of Time – TOHOKU Museum is the memorial designed by Tsuyoshi Tane to house Tatsuo Miyajima's ...

Ceremonies and memorials marked the 14th anniversary of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, but the disaster has still not ...

A small Japanese fishing community devastated by the great east japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011 managed to recover from the disaster through cooperative community activity despite the propensity ...

In March 2011, the magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan. Violent ground shaking ...

Port disruptions are costly—very costly. While the 2011 Tohoku tsunami caused about $12 billion in damages to port facilities and vessels, the ensuing port disruptions resulted in a loss in seaborne ...

(a) The global port network of liner services. Ports estimated to be damaged under (b) present sea levels (n = 11) and (c) SSP5 - 8.5 (Low confidence) sea level rise scenario by 2100 (n = 15). Red ...