Dr. Brian Atwater: The Orphan Tsunami of 1700

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A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January, 1700. Samurai, merchants and villagers wrote of flooding and damage, and many said no earthquake had been felt. They had no way of knowing it was spawned by an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. A fascinating series of discoveries in the 1990sunderpin many of