Tag: earthquake

Major earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest are fairly uncommon, yet a significant threat looms: “The Big One” is an anticipated earthquake of magnitude 8 or higher. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo: A 5.6 magnitude quake jolted southeast of Honshu in Japan, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The temblor that hit the region at 2122 GMT on Thursday was epicentered at 31.09 ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted Southeast of Honshu, Japan, at 2122 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. Enditem ... ( read original story ...)

A beautiful city registered as a World Heritage site collapsed in an instant. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco in North Africa. The reason for the enormous damage, though not on such a large ... ( read original story ...)

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Hirara on Monday. This was confirmed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Earlier this month, prime minister Fumio Kishida staged a televised disaster ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck northeast of Taiwan region on Monday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The earthquake w ... ( read original story ...)

Disasters can happen anywhere. Some places are more prone to hazards such as earthquakes, flooding and hurricanes, but there's nowhere where the risk is zero. The good news is that humans can make good decisions to lower the odds of such hazards turning into disasters. Technology can help determine where to make investments to save ...

Disasters can happen anywhere. Some places are more prone to hazards such as earthquakes, flooding and hurricanes, but there’s nowhere where the risk is zero. The good news is that humans can make good decisions to lower the odds of such hazards turning into disasters. ( read original story ...)

A 600-meter stretch of a seawall built in this northeast Japan city in the wake of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and ts･･･ ( read original story ...)

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck northeastern Japan. Officials say there is no threat of tsunami. The Meteorological Agency says the quake struck at around 4:33 a.m. on Tuesday and the focus was 60 kilometers deep, off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, said the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Monday. According to the agency, ... ( read original story ...)

One of the world's largest earthquake simulators, built to better understand temblor mechanics, was demonstrated at a national res･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

The July 2017 torrential rain disaster sowed much destruction across Japan's northern Kyushu region, including wiping out a section of railway passing through this village. But six years later, the line has been restored to the local citizens and travelers in the form of a bus rapid transit (BRT) service, ( read original story ...)

Social media posts claim a video of a home's interior shaking shows an earthquake that hit Morocco in 2023. This is false; the clip was taken in Oita, Japan in January 2022 . ( read original story ...)

Japan will extend around $3 million in emergency aid to Morocco through humanitarian organizations after it was hit by a deadly earth ... ( read original story ...)

Facebook posts shared hundreds of times have misleadingly attributed old photos of earthquakes in Turkey and Japan to a September 2023 quake in Morocco which has claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 ... ( read original story ...)