“Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami,” on view at the gallery’s Grosvenor Hill space until March 8, 2025. At its center is Matabei’s Rakuchū-Rakugai-zu Byōbu (Scenes in and ...

Damage at the Port of Brookings, Ore., after the tsunami from Japan in 2011. The entire Southern Oregon coast is breathing a collective sigh of relief. A strong earthquake off the coast of ...

Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet, slipped. The upward shove violently shifted the ...

“My background is unlike most folks in the art business, yet my house was filled with Japanese art. It was a striking contrast.” Verne swallowed his pride, asked to send a duplicate ...

Almost 1,000 kilometers off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves — a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster ...

As if Florida needs another type of natural disaster to worry about. That said, scientists warned for decades a tsunami could jet our way at more than 500 mph. It's happened before. Few were ...

Similarly, when an earthquake hit Noto, Japan, in January 2024, swiftly issued tsunami warnings and evacuation orders undoubtedly saved lives. However, these systems are not in use globally and ...

Most international headlines about Japanese art this year have given glowing impressions, which is little surprise considering the country has no shortage of venues and events that draw global ...

Today, Andaman coastal communities in Phuket, Phangnga, Krabi, Trang, Satun and Ranong provinces commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that claimed more than ...

Children stand at a vertical evacuation shelter overlooking the coastline that was destroyed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Image: ESCAP/Temily Baker BANGKOK Today marks ...

The terrible memories of the Asian tsunami of December 26, 2004 may never fade away from the minds of the millions of its victims and the people who worked to provide relief and rehabilitation in ...

Last Thursday's Tsunami Warning was scary for everyone who received the alert along the West Coast. Luckily, the warning was canceled, but many people are still wondering — Why was it issued in ...