Tag: earthquake

A company supplying equipment to protect major buildings in Japan from earthquakes has admitted falsifying data, authorities said Wednesday, stressing there was no immediate safety risk. ( read original story ...)

"The last thing we want is to have people lose faith in the system." Japan, which has one of the world's most sophisticated earthquake warning systems, offers an idea of what California should expect. ... ( read original story ...)

In regions that have traditionally suffered earthquake and tsunami damage, there are folk traditions that teach people how to survive. "Tsunami tendenko," a maxim handed down through generations in Ja... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- An earthquake Friday shook parts of a northern Japanese island where a stronger temblor last month set off deadly landslides and damaged a power plant. No injuries or damage has been reported ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Sputnik) - A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, the country's Meteorological Agency said on Friday. The seismic focus was located in the southern part of t... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake on Friday jolted the same area of Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido that was hit by one of the country’s most powerful tremors last month. The quake, w... ( read original story ...)

A STRONG earthquake has jolted the same area of Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido that was hit by one of the country's most powerful tremors last month. The shake, which struck at 8.58am (1... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ise in Japan on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/09/18 / 2018-09-15 02:36:04 / September 15, 2018 @ ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported Izu Islands, Japan region (0 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 09:42:16 / 9:42 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000hbaa. I... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Ishigaki in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Chitose in Japan. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issu... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Muroran in Japan. The temblor was picked up at 21:33:58 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning ... ( read original story ...)

About 22 people are still unaccounted for in the small northern countryside town of Atsuma, where a cluster of dwellings were wrecked when a hillside collapsed with the force of the 6.6-magnitude quak... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 131 km NW of Ishikawa, Japan (81 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will e... ( read original story ...)

(SAPPORO, Japan) — A powerful earthquake Thursday on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido triggered dozens of landslides that crushed houses under torrents of dirt, rocks and timber ... ( read original story ...)

Rescuers were rushing to unearth survivors and restore power Thursday after a powerful earthquake jolted Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, buckling roads, knocking homes off their foundati... ( read original story ...)