Tag: earthquake

Japan sits on the 'Ring of Fire' arc of volcanoes and oceanic trenches and experiences frequent earthquakes due to its geographical location. ( read original story ...)

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 struck Japan's southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki and other areas early Sunday, th ... ( read original story ...)

The government on Friday designated 108 municipalities across seven of Japan's 47 prefectures as requiring stronger anti-disaster mea ... ( read original story ...)

Shinzo Abe is credited for giving stability and security to Japan. Before Shinzo Abe returned to power in 2012, Japan had suffered its biggest trauma since World War Two. ( read original story ...)

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Washington in D.C. have discovered links to Japan's next "great earthquake" after drilling deep into the underseas using a ... ( read original story ...)

A series of earthquake tremors shook buildings in Tokyo as a quake struck in Ibaraki, reported authorities. The quake measured 4.5 on the Richter scale, indicating that it was strong enough to be felt ... ( read original story ...)

A series of earthquakes hit several parts of the world including Afghanistan, Indonesia, Japan and Manipur in India on Friday ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.5 briefly struck the southern part of Japan's Ibaraki prefecture on Friday, authorities said, shaking buildings in Tokyo. ( read original story ...)

Scientists who drilled deeper into an undersea earthquake fault than ever before have found that the tectonic stress in Japan’s Nankai subduction zone is less than expected, according to a study from ... ( read original story ...)

More than a decade after the second-worst nuclear disaster in history, engineers want to construct a huge water-filled tank around one of the damaged reactors and carry out underwater dismantling work ... ( read original story ...)

HOON A Madagascar hissing cockroach, mounted with a "backpack" of electronics and a solar cell, is pictured with a remote control broadcast device during a photo oppo ... ( read original story ...)

If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches. That's a potential a ... ( read original story ...)

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on Sunday, and a remarkable video shows half a dozen badminton players running out of the way as a gym's ceiling collapses, some of them avoiding the destruction ... ( read original story ...)

This fault is positioned relative to the Japan trench subduction zone off the eastern coast of Japan, and its rupture led to the disturbance on the seafloor that created the tsunami waves associated ... ( read original story ...)

A massive earthquake in Mexico on Monday shook up the entire country, with the scale of the earthquake reaching as high as 7.6 magnitudes. ( read original story ...)

Super Typhoon Nanmadol hit southwest Japan on Monday, bringing damaging winds and torrential rains with it, killing at least one person, injuring many others and displacing thousands as the nation ... ( read original story ...)