tsunami

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Others see the sea change as less a legal tsunami than a tidal cultural shift — one jurors in New Mexico and California are riding, not speaking into existence.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

“We bear the brunt of everything. This is really a layered tsunami of hurt.”

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

A gripping documentary revisits Japan’s combined catastrophe in 2011 of a tsunami and a nuclear crisis—which threatened to become even worse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

With magnitudes of 7.4 and 7.2, the quakes generated a tsunami.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

Once they’d made it through the gates, some, including Kai, rushed off to try to reach family members in Okuma and Futaba before the tsunami did.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland