Cascadia's last mega-quake, in January 1700, was approximately as large as Chile's; it caused a tsunami that pummeled Japan.
Something strange happened in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that pummeled Japan.
Then there were six, or eight, or nineteen dead in Japan, depending on what media you consulted in the hours after the earthquake and tsunami that pummelled the country's northeastern coast on Friday.
Akira Amari, the economy minister, blamed the fall, of an annualised 6.8%—the steepest since the earthquake and tsunami that pummelled Japan in 2011 on the decision to raise the consumption tax from 5% to 8% in April and said the economy will rebound.
Last year, scientists at the Benfield Hazard Research Center in London warned that a massive collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a volcano in the Canary Islands, would trigger a towering tsunami that could pummel coasts on both sides of the Atlantic, deluging cities such as New York, Miami, and Lisbon.
Pummeled by earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis, ferry sinkings, aviation crashes, floods and deadly mudslides, Indonesia almost seems to have been fated to become the world's epicenter of bird flu deaths.
The areas pummeled by the earthquake and tsunami in March would surely be inhospitable for an electric vehicle.
For days, the 20-year-old heard nothing about her grandparents, parents or older sister, who live on the coast in Minami Sanriku, a tiny fishing village pummeled by the earthquake and tsunami.
Instead, the center has been pummeled by a series of tsunamis that no one in the French research community, it appears, saw coming.
