On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The timing, around midday, was calamitous. Families were cooking over open ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

As Japan marks the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated large areas of the country’s northeast in 2011, experts have warned that the seismic conditions in an underwater trench off ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

More than 18,000 people died on March 11, 2011 when Japan's north-eastern coast was hit by a massive earthquake, tsunami and ...

when the worst earthquake and ensuing tsunami in recorded Japanese history struck the eastern part of the country. The damage was devastating, and an estimated 18,000 people died as a result.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The following is an earthquake alert issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency. Day and Time: March 19, 2025 ...

Predicting whether we are due for a big earthquake is tricky because there are so many factors involved. The Nankai Trough is the butterfly effect writ large: the smallest changes can have huge ...

Around the time that Roki Sasaki made his long-awaited decision to sign with the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles was reeling ...