Tsunamis

A barnacle-encrusted boat with Japanese lettering was discovered on a Northern California beach.

Five striped fish apparently survived a journey across the Pacific.

Species that washed ashore with a small Japanese skiff.

Time and again, tsunamis remade societies around the world.

A dock set adrift by the 2011 Japan tsunami washed ashore in Oregon in December 2012.

The Japan tsunami dragged 5 million tons of debris into the ocean.

The beaches of Alaska are piled with debris from the tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, but restoration to their once pristine condition has slowed, as funding remains scarce.

What triggered the tsunami some 3,000 years ago is uncertain.

Turbulence may have washed many animals away.