Tag: earthquake

When an Ibaraki factory that manufactured semiconductors for automobiles was damaged in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, automakers in Japan and overseas, including Toyota Motor Corp., were ... ( read original story ...)

And the program's inauspicious start has officials grappling with an existential question that quake-prone countries such as Japan and Mexico have faced before: Is it better to issue too many ... ( read original story ...)

The United States Geological Survey confirmed the tremor hit north of the Okinawan islands. The islands are part of the wider Ryukyu Islands chain and are south of the main Japanese islands of ... ( read original story ...)

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake was reported at 5:57 p.m. Pacific time on Friday 105 miles from Amami, Japan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. According to the USGS, the epicenter was farther than ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck north of Japan’s islands of Okinawa on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the quake, ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake measuring 6.1-magnitude jolted 169 km northwest of Naze, Japan, at 00:57:43 GMT on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre, with a depth of 242.18 km, was initially ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck north of Japan's islands of Okinawa on Saturday (Jul 13), the United States Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck north of Japan’s islands of Okinawa on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage or ... ( read original story ...)

The United States Geological Survey confirmed the tremor hit north of the Okinawan islands. The islands are part of the wider Ryukyu Islands chain and are south of the main Japanese islands of ... ( read original story ...)

The Situation While cities differ greatly in their preparations, many in fault zones are moving more urgently to revisit disaster plans in the wake of Japan’s harrowing 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which ... ( read original story ...)

And steel frame high rises... we saw it in the 1994 (Northridge) earthquake and in Japan in '95, they saw the same issue with the welding of the buildings: the weld changed the chemical properties of ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese daredevil surfers are risking radioactive water and ... A 15-metre high tsunami ripped through the area in the afternoon of March 11, 2011, following a magnitude-9 earthquake just off the ... ( read original story ...)

Evening Standard - 11:10 AM GMT June 21, 2019 France earthquake: 5.1 magnitude tremors - Loire Valley hit by rare alert as homes shaken Daily Express - 11:02 AM GMT June 21, 2019 Earthquake strikes ... ( read original story ...)

To allow or not to allow smartphones in schools, that is the question. Educators around the world are struggling with this issue as it becomes increasingly obvious that mobile devices, the most ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — A powerful earthquake jolted northwestern Japan late Tuesday, prompting officials to issue a tsunami warning along the coast which was lifted about 2 ½ hours later. Thousands of ... ( read original story ...)

A tsunami warning has been issued after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck close to the coast of Japan. There were no reports of serious casualties, but the country’s Meteorological Agency issued a ... ( read original story ...)