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Japan begins the discharge of treated radioactive waste water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean.
2023-08-24

The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, the first of the NASA's Artemis program, ends with a splashdown of the Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California at 17:40 UTC.
2022-12-11

North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile towards Japan, prompting evacuation warnings for residents in the prefectures of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata. The missile landed about 1100 km off the Japanese coast in the Pacific Ocean, with the launch likely not successful.
2022-11-3

The Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan formally approves the release of a million tons of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. The plan had already been endorsed by the Japanese government and other agencies.
2022-07-22

Japanese yachtsman Kenichi Horie becomes the oldest person to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean at the age of 83.
2022-06-4

A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs, with the full moon dimming slightly as it passes through the Earth's penumbral shadow. It is visible from most of North America, the Pacific Ocean, parts of East Asia, and New Zealand.
2020-11-30

The U.S. cruiser USS "Chancellorsville" and the Russian destroyer "Admiral Vinogradov" almost collide in the western Pacific Ocean. Each side blames the other, and their reports disagree as to the location of the incident: Russia claims it happened in the East China Sea, while the U.S. says it was in the nearby Philippine Sea.
2019-06-7

Back-to-back-to-back storms from the current El Niño, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says ties the strongest on record (1997–98), are likely to produce dangerous flooding and mudslides in the Western United States with as much as 15 inches (30cm) of rain, and about 2 feet (60cm) of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains over the next two weeks.
2016-01-5

Tropical Storm Calvin forms off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
2011-07-8

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake and small tsunami hits the Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu.
2010-08-10