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 ...

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 ...

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.