Japanese university students in the capital have released videos that introduce consultation windows and support systems in ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake Insurance Market to See Huge Growth by 2026 | Allstate, State Farm, Liberty Mutual
The latest 94+ page survey report on Global Earthquake Insurance Market is released by HTF MI covering various players of the industry selected from global geographies like North America, Europe, ... ( read original story ...)
First-half exports log drop of 15.4%, Japan’s steepest in over a decade
The hefty year-on-year drop was led by plunging shipments of autos and auto parts as demand was dented by the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)
Weird, Z-shaped faults could trigger a large earthquake on California’s San Andreas Fault
It's impossible to know when the San Andreas Fault will erupt with its next big earthquake — a temblor that could impact the nearly 13 million people who live in the Los Angeles metro area — but it ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake of 4.8 magnitude hits Andaman and Nicobar Islands
An earthquake of 4.8 magnitude hit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Friday morning, officials said. There were no immediate reports of any loss of life or damage to property, they said. The ... ( read original story ...)
5.0-magnitude quake hits Shikoku of Japan: USGS
NEW YORK, July 16 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted southeast of Shikoku, Japan at 20:03:09 GMT on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of ... ( read original story ...)
‘Japan Sinks: 2020’ review: Masaaki Yuasa’s anime series on Netflix is flawed, but relevant
The show, based on the 1973 novel of the same name, follows a middle-class urban family’s struggle to survive an earthquake-ravaged country ... ( read original story ...)
Correlation of frontal prism structures and slope failures near the trench axis with shallow megathrust slip at the Japan Trench
Since the giant 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, much research has focused on the distribution of coseismic slip at shallow depths during this subduction megathrust event. Here we present seismic ... ( read original story ...)
A big California earthquake along the San Andreas Fault just got ‘a little likelier’
Earthquake forecasts describe the likelihood of a quake occurring ... Stein and a longtime collaborator, Shinji Toda of Tohoku University in Japan, modeled changes in stresses in the complex structure ... ( read original story ...)
Chance of big San Andreas earthquake increased by Ridgecrest temblors, study suggests
earthquakes, whose epicenters were about 125 miles northeast ... Stein’s coauthor on the study is Shinji Toda, of Tohoku University in Japan. If the Garlock fault did rupture close to the San Andreas ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake numbers skewed to prioritize budgets over science
When manipulated figures on the likelihood of a Nankai Trough quake were released, internal disagreements were kept hidden. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus fear drives Japanese flooding victims to seek shelter in cars
Japan is accustomed to earthquakes and flooding, but this time disaster has struck amid a health crisis, turning a trusted system on its head. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s seismologists and policymakers at odds over quake science
“The time-predictable model is used only for the Nankai Trough and it is strange to present the figure in a map showing earthquake predictions across Japan (using other methods),” one member was ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Sinks: 2020 Arrives at Either the Best or Worst Time
Japan Sinks: 2020 is a powerful and brilliant series, but it's perfectly understandable if you're not ready for it. ( read original story ...)
KFC Japan Shares Tumble as Pandemic-Driven Demand Subsides
A long-running, and pandemic-boosted, fried chicken bubble in Japan just might be coming to end. Same-store sales at KFC Holdings Japan, the operator of the eponymous fast-food chain in Japan, fell 1% ... ( read original story ...)
Japan launches new 223mph bullet train that can ‘escape’ to safety in the event of an earthquake
The N700S - the 's' stands for 'Supreme' - has a top speed of 360kph (223mph), though the line it serves, the Tokaido Shinkansen line, has a maximum operating speed of 285kph (177mph). ( read original story ...)