This catastrophic event was followed by multiple aftershocks, and has prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean.
The male albino ferret has been named Kon-Tiki after a famous 1940s raft expedition across the Pacific Ocean.
"It's really one of the first significant pieces of tsunami debris to make its way across the Pacific Ocean, " Mosley said.
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The red dragon just blew a hot stream of fire across the Pacific Ocean, right on top of the White House.
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The effects of the 2011 tsunami in Japan were felt across the Pacific Ocean to earthquake-prone California, which shares the same tectonic plate.
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The sinking of the Ryou-Un Maru brought about the end of a journey for the rust-stained ship that drifted across the Pacific Ocean as part of a giant debris field generated by a tsunami that struck Japan following a 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011.
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The brief for the Plastiki Expedition was to design a boat made out of plastic bottles that could be sailed across the Pacific Ocean that would draw attention to the problems facing the oceans as well as the kind of solutions that we need to implement.
Meanwhile, fears over radioactive fallout here in the United States, which led to panic buying of an anti-radiation medicine and survival gear in the West, have been allayed for the time being by EPA findings that almost no radiation has survived the 5, 000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean.
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They are asking us to believe that radiation released from a plant in Japan (where no one died) somehow traveled 5, 000 miles across the Pacific Ocean to the U.S., where it haphazardly killed (or in some cases saved) thousands of Americans by a process that is utterly implausible all by manipulation of dubious statistics.
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After the tsunami Hawaii still attracts thousands of visitors daily: the huge Waikiki hotel and downtown Honolulu office infrastructure remains intact, and if one wanders down the main tourist drag of Kalakaua Avenue, the tourist throngs at the omnipresent Starbucks, MacDonalds, and surfboard rental shops reflect a calm, business-as-usual atmosphere, as if there never was such a terrible tragedy across the Pacific Ocean.
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When he visits Ansata's offices, he revels in the glorious view of the Pacific Ocean across the street.
The tsunami waves swept across a wide swath of the Pacific Ocean, killing dozens and flattening or submerging villages.
And Concorde's limited range means that it cannot fly supersonically across the world's largest body of water, the Pacific Ocean.
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He has already helped to track down a more recent, smaller impact (a mere 2.15m years ago, and involving an object somewhere between one and four kilometres across) to another part of the Pacific ocean, south-west of Chile.
The volcanoes are strung across several thousand kilometres of ocean floor and are moving westward on the Pacific tectonic plate at up to 6cm per year.
It could change the frequency of the Pacific pattern known as El Nino, a cycle of peculiar weather that affects ocean currents and rainfall across the planet.
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