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The tsunami that followed on the heels of the March 11, 2011, earthquake in Japan produced as much as 25 million tons of debris. Much of this debris was swept into the ocean. To track where this debris is headed, a team of scienti…

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HONOLULU -- "I'm kinda still in shock," said Stacy Horner over the phone.   On a cloudy Sunday morning on the northern coast of Molokai, Horner says he saw debris on a beach that was not there the day before. He also saw the Japa…

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               Pacific Ocean Survey Northwest of Midway Atoll in Expectation of Tsunami Debris from Japan  HONOLULU, HAWAII - January 20, 2012 - The March 11, 2011 earthquake northeast of Japan, and the impact of subsequent tsu…

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Ever since the great Japan tsunami on March 11 washed millions of tons of debris into the Pacific, scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, have been trying to track the trajectory of…