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A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has been registered off the southern Japanese Ryukyu Islands, the US Geological Survey says. Asia Hirara Okinawa The tremor was recorded at 22:02 GMT on Friday, 147 ... ( read original story ...)

The new map shows probabilities of at least 26% in the eastern part of Hokkaido, as well as the Pacific side of the Kanto region, Tokai region and Kinki and Shikoku regions. ( read original story ...)

Olympic torch relay began in Fukushima on Thursday, and is scheduled to make its way across Japan over a 121-day journey and culminate with the start of the Games in July. ( read original story ...)

Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Yokosuka visited Defense Fuel Service Point (DFSP) Hachinohe to observe fuel terminal operations 10 years after it was ... ( read original story ...)

Tsunami waves of up to one metre have hit the coast of Japan following a seismic earthquake. The 7.2 magnitude quake was felt in the country’s capital of Tokyo despite occurring 250 miles away of the ... ( read original story ...)

The 7.2-magnitude quake, which could be felt hundreds of miles away in Tokyo, briefly prompted a tsunami warning. ( read original story ...)

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the east coast of Honshu, Japan on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. ( read original story ...)

A strong earthquake off northern Japan has shaken buildings in Tokyo and triggered a tsunami advisory for a part of the country’s northern coast. No major damage was reported, but several people had ... ( read original story ...)

A massive magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Japan’s northeastern coast, rattling residents across Tokyo and triggering a temporary tsunami warning on Saturday. ( read original story ...)

A 7.0 preliminary magnitude earthquake has struck Japan off the coast of Ishinomaki, a city located just 65 miles (104 km) from Fukushima, the site of a devastating 9.0 magnitude quake 10 years ago. ( read original story ...)

Authorities issued a tsunami warning for Japan on Saturday after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. Tsunami waves of up to 1 meter (3.2 feet) hit land shortly after ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake struck northeastern Japan on Saturday, hitting areas devastated by the 2011 disaster, generating a tsunami of 1 metre and shaking buildings.The quake, with a magnitude of 7.2, hit the ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake hit Japan today (Match 20) sparking tsunami warnings and shaking buildings. The magnitude 7 quake struck near the east coast of Honshu at 6:09pm local time, according to the United ... ( read original story ...)

The aseismic slip rate, which increases sharply immediately after a giant earthquake and then rapidly decays, increases again gradually toward the next event, according to observations of earthquakes ... ( read original story ...)

Although the large coseismic slip of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake was limited to the middle segment, the observed negative residual gravity anomaly area in the southern segment corresponds to the ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese court on Thursday ruled that a nuclear power plant northeast of Tokyo should not restart because it lacks an adequate emergency plans to safely evacuate ... ( read original story ...)