One year ago, the world watched as a massive tsunami engulfed entire communities in northern Japan. Live television footage showed waves as high as 30 feet rushing into coastal cities, tossing ...

BBC Verify take a look at what clips shared on social media about the Pacific tsunami are real and which are not.

“Because you had all of this very real footage, it made the incident much more real in people’s minds. They no longer have to imagine what a tsunami is, they saw it live,” said Tokyo-based ...

The claim: Video shows tsunami wave hitting Suzu City in Japan on Jan. 1 A Jan. 1 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a large wave spilling onto a residential street and carrying ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Russia caused tsunami waves, but there are no reports of serious casualties, contrary to the misleading video’s claim ...

A video circulating online amid major evacuations across the Pacific is claimed to show a tsunami which has taken “thousands of lives”. But this is misleading.

This video of the tsunami in Indonesia shows how it struck without warning. A rock band was giving a concert when the wave came ashore and crashed into the stage.

As the days pass in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, more videos keep making their way onto the Internet filmed by those experiencing the tragedies first-hand -- be it in ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system—powered by El Capitan, the world's fastest supercomputer—that ...