due to improved disaster prevention measures like building reinforcement and sea walls, according to the report. Japan is among the world’s most earthquake-prone countries. The last magnitude-9 ...

When waves come crashing over the sea wall in Chile's biggest port of San Antonio, dockers run for cover. The state-run port, which handles 1.7 million containers annually, is frequently lashed by ...

The calmness of Seto Inland Sea, located in western Japan, will send your worries away. One thing that has been firmly supporting lives in this area is stone. The stone walls of the famous Osaka ...

The district was engulfed by waves more than 10 meters high when the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan ... from the sea,” he said. “But all I could see that day were grotesque high walls.” ...

He added that an invasive plant species called Japanese Knotweed has been discovered ... making it possible to pass in front of the sea wall at low tide while bypassing the closed path.

Vital to many expanding technologies, rare-earth deposits were identified in Japan’s deep-sea clays in 2013. Scientists have been contemplating the technical and environmental challenge this ...

They are taking part in the “Sea Walls Maui – Mauka to Makai” project that runs through Saturday. The Maui News / MELISSA TANJI photos WAILUKU — Former Maui resident Alexandra Underwood ...