Where will the next mega earthquake hit? Curvy faults may be key

Embed Feed 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami: Time-lapse aerial footage shows rebuilding efforts five years on from disaster IBTimes UK Mega earthquakes have been linked to how curvy the fault is, with a flatter fault more likely to produce magnitude 9 or ... ( read original story ...)

Is an earthquake early-warning system possible for New Zealand?

Japan's arrangement, which cost more than $1 billion to build, includes an automatic earthquake location system based on hundreds of seismographs, along with pre-existing models of what tsunamis could be caused by 100,000 different earthquakes at 10,000 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan earthquakes and the Ring of Fire

The 6.9-magnitude earthquake last week off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, probably happened along the same fault that ruptured in 2011, unleashing a massive 9.0-magnitude temblor and resulting tsunami that caused widespread destruction. What makes this ... ( read original story ...)

Freak weather hits Japan after monster earthquake and tsunami

SNOW is falling in Tokyo for the first November in 54 years after Japan suffered a shock earthquake and tsunami. Astonishing video shows heaps of snow falling from the sky in Tokyo and settling on the city's streets. The Japanese capital usually sees a ... ( read original story ...)

An Identity Lost in Post-War Japan Took 67 Years to Reclaim

At a public bath in a Yokohama slum in the 1950s, a red-haired girl scrubs her skin with a pumice stone, hard, to try to get the white out. Other kids sometimes taunt her. "American, American." She yells back, "I'm Japanese!" She is told she was abandoned. ( read original story ...)

BANK OF JAPAN : Japanese Prices Continue to Fall

TOKYO-Japanese consumer prices fell again in October, but deflationary pressure showed some signs of softening-a positive development for beleaguered central bankers. The core consumer price index slipped 0.4% from a year earlier in October, adjusted for ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Display Said Close to a Bailout

Nov.24 -- Japan Display is said to be close to winning a bailout from INCJ worth nearly $900M. Bloomberg's Yuji Nakamura reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia." ( read original story ...)

Hanyu dominates men's short program at NHK Trophy

SAPPORO, Japan - Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu recorded a season-best score to dominate the men's short program at the NHK Trophy on Friday. Skating to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy," the defending champion from Japan stumbled on the landing of his opening quad ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s CPI Falls Again, Extending Longest Streak Since 2011

Japan’s consumer prices fell for an eighth straight month -- the longest streak of declines since 2009-2011, underlining how distant the nation is from achieving its 2 percent inflation target. Consumer prices excluding fresh food, the Bank of Japan’s ... ( read original story ...)