Debris From Japan Tsunami Still Reaching US Shores

Debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami will continue to litter the North American coastline over the next three years, with everything from refrigerators to lumber to sports balls still floating offshore in the Pacific, an expert said Tuesday. About 1 million tons of debris was still lingering in the Pacific Ocean four years after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded in Japan, set off a series of massive tsunami waves that devastated a wide swath of Honshu's...

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