In March 2011, Japan was hit by the Tohoku ... tectonic plates converge and there are frequent major earthquakes in coastal areas or offshore. Peru is another country in a similar zone, and suffered a ...

The team of researchers from Tohoku University ... construct maps of the three-dimensional displacements caused by the Noto Peninsula earthquake. The results showed more than 4m of uplift and ...

That event was triggered by a 9.1 subduction zone earthquake, which caused ... Tohoku Earthquake, “the really big one” would be a subduction zone event. In a subduction zone earthquake, one ...

Similarities between the March 16 earthquake and a temblor that rattled the Tohoku region in February ... also noted that bedrock contained in the Pacific Plate, which lies beneath the Japanese ...

which causes high-rise buildings to sway slowly, marked the largest Level 4 in northern Miyagi Prefecture. The earthquake also cut electricity to more than 2.2 million homes in the Kanto, Tohoku ...

Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To help fill this gap, a research team has investigated the connection between ...

To this end, we focus on those firms that were forced to relocate their headquarters because of the severe damage inflicted upon them by the Tohoku Earthquake. We find that, after the earthquake, ...

Japan is among the most earthquake-prone countries globally, due to it sitting across four converging tectonic plates that ... quake that struck the Tohoku region and caused a huge tsunami.