Tag: earthquake

One year has passed since a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Mexico City, toppling 40 buildings and killing over 300, but the memory remains fresh. Condemned structures dot many neighborhoods, their ... ( read original story ...)

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was live on television when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Wellington. ( read original story ...)

Efforts to educate people about events during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami are in trouble from the spread of the novel corona ... ( read original story ...)

A quake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale struck off Japan`s Fukushima prefecture on Tuesday, the weather agency here said. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor was centred ... ( read original story ...)

Two magnitude 5.3 earthquakes hit Japan on Tuesday, according to Japan’s Meteorological Agency. The first quake hit the state of Fukushima, and occurred 50 kilometers (31 miles) below the surface, ... ( read original story ...)

Just as cinemas in Japan have taken a financial hit due to the coronavirus pandemic, distributors find themselves in similar straits. ( read original story ...)

Japan's GDP shrank by 3.4 percent in the first quarter as its main export markets were crushed by coronavirus lockdowns. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s economy slipped into recession for the first time in 4-1/2 years, putting the nation on course for its deepest postwar slump as the coronavirus crisis ravages businesses and consumers. ( read original story ...)

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck early Friday in the western Nevada desert near Tonopah, leaving some people in the Bay Area to report shaking, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. ( read original story ...)

A key economic indicator in Japan fell at the fastest pace since 2011 in March and the government warned of a deep recession as the coronavirus crisis takes a heavy toll on business activity and ... ( read original story ...)

The quake hit near the east coast of Honshu at 23.58 UTC on Sunday. The earthquake was reported to have a depth of 80km. It also hit 129km north east of Saitama and also 26km south east of Hitachi, ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit off the coast of eastern Japan on Monday but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage. ( read original story ...)

The quake would be at least as bad as the one which hit Japan in 2011 and cause a tsunami so large that physical barriers would be useless - with the best defence being to run, experts warn. ( read original story ...)

Researchers recently discovered that like solar flares and extreme space weather, earthquakes and tsunamis could also disrupt Earth’s ionosphere. According to the researchers, the effects of these Ear ... ( read original story ...)

The land masses of Japan shifted from east to west to east again in the months before the strongest earthquake in the country's recorded history, a 2011 magnitude-9 earthquake that killed more than 15 ... ( read original story ...)

Fig. 1: Locations of the great earthquakes and of the continuous GNSS stations that capture the preceding transient motions. Fig. 2: Time series before Tohoku-oki and Maule and the effect of noise ... ( read original story ...)