Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga offered condolences to Turkey on Monday after a major earthquake there late last week left doz ... ( read original story ...)
New fault zone measurements could help us to understand subduction earthquakes
Researchers have conducted detailed structural analyses of a fault zone in central Japan to identify the specific conditions that lead to devastating earthquake. The seismic slip processes that were ... ( read original story ...)
New fault zone measurements could help us to understand subduction earthquake
... has conducted detailed structural analyses of a fault zone located in central Japan, with the aim to help identify the specific conditions that lead to earthquake faulting, a hazard that can cause ... ( read original story ...)
South Korea expresses ‘serious concern’ over any Japanese radioactive water dump
South Korea expressed alarm on Thursday about the possibility that Japan will dump more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ... ( read original story ...)
October 28, 1707 – The Great Japan Earthquake of 1707
Hōei earthquake struck south-central Japan at 2 p.m. local time. At the time, it was the largest earthquake in Japanese history. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s nuke wastewater crisis sparks debate
Since the current storage capacity will be full by the summer of 2022, and if no new storage facilities are built, the cost-effective way to dispose of the contaminated water would be to dilute and ... ( read original story ...)
Japan pushes ammonia fuel as way to aim for net zero emissions
resource-poor Japan continues to see nuclear power as an effective means to achieve a society with reduced carbon dioxide emissions. Still, many nuclear plants are offline following the 2011 Fukushima ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Plans to Dump a Million Tons of Radioactive Water into the Pacific
Japan isn’t the only country with a nuclear ... Contaminated water in leaking tanks In 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami resulted in the meltdown of four large nuclear reactors, and ... ( read original story ...)
Scientists Identify Nuclear Plants Facing Highest Risks From Earthquakes
The U.S. nuclear power reactors facing the highest risks of a meltdown from earthquakes are not in tremor-prone California, but states including South ... ( read original story ...)
This Japanese Navigation App Tells Stories About the 2011 Earthquake
The 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan in 2011 and killed approximately 20,000 people was one of the biggest in the history of the country, and needless to say, those who experienced the whole thing on ... ( read original story ...)
Geologist says earthquake in Japan among most powerful ever
The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan Friday ranked among the most powerful earthquakes in the last 111 years, according to a geologist with the New York State Museum. ( read original story ...)
Japan delays releasing radioactive water into sea
TOKYO: Japan has decided to delay making a decision on whether to ... plant suffered meltdowns that contaminated the surrounding areas following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan puts off decision to release treated Fukushima water into sea
Japan has put off a decision to release treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, government ... ( read original story ...)
Editorial: Consent to restart Japan nuclear plant won’t sweep away concerns
The Miyagi Prefectural Assembly has approved reactivation of the No. 2 unit of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant in the northeastern Japan Prefecture of ... ( read original story ...)
AI detects hidden earthquakes
Tiny movements in Earth's outermost layer may provide a Rosetta Stone for deciphering the physics and warning signs of big quakes. New algorithms that work a little like human vision are now detecting ... ( read original story ...)
New technology finds long-hidden quakes and possible clues about how earthquakes evolve
Measures of Earth's vibrations zigged and zagged across Mostafa Mousavi's screen one morning in Memphis, Tenn. As part of his Ph.D. studies in geophysics, he sat scanning earthquake signals recorded ... ( read original story ...)