The 2007 earthquakes and tsunami caused further economic setbacks.
Seward was largely destroyed by a tsunami caused by the 1964 Alaska earthquake.
Last year fishing facilities were damaged by a tsunami caused by a strong quake in Chile.
The tsunami caused extensive damage to seaports along the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island.
That quake and a resulting tsunami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
One possibility is a rare meteotsunami, which is a tsunami caused by weather.
The Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami, caused by a 9.1-magnitude undersea earthquake, slammed 13 countries, killing about 226,000 people.
The tsunami, caused by an earthquake of appalling violence, brought forth unprecedented generosity from around the world.
The 2004 tsunami, caused by a giant magnitude 9.1 earthquake, killed 230,000 people in more than a dozen countries.
The subsequent tsunami caused a series of nuclear meltdowns which have poisoned food and water supplies and left countless people with radiation sickness.
Ogatsu's struggle is being repeated across Japan's north-east, where the tsunami caused 1.2tn yen of damage to the fishing industry.
