Tag: earthquake

A fire broke out Thursday during the demolition of an earthquake-damaged chimney at a paper factory in Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto. Footage on NHK national television showed an orange ... ( read original story ...)

Fukushima Daiichi was already in crisis after Japan’s most powerful earthquake knocked the plant off the grid. Then a nearly 15-meter tsunami swallowed the site, flooded the diesel generators, killed ... ( read original story ...)

The specialized evacuation shelter, which also caters to the needs of pregnant women, is the only one of its kind in Kumamoto. ( read original story ...)

The government conducted a disaster drill Tuesday, simulating a scenario in which a major earthquake had struck along the Japan and Chishima trenches, off the Pacific coast from Hokkaido to the Tohoku ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Kumamoto Castle sees half the visitors compared to last year after the quake, impacting local tourism and economy despite recent reopening. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s government Earthquake Research Committee has warned that active faults in and around the Kinki region could produce a magnitude 6.8 or larger earthquake with a 50% to 60% probability over the ... ( read original story ...)

The Earthquake Research Committee of Japan has issued a warning indicating that the active fault lines within and nearby the Kinki area might lead to an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 or greater, with a ... ( read original story ...)

The Aeon Mall outlet in Kumamoto partially collapsed after the large earthquake with the retailer reporting an explosion. ( read original story ...)

The Kinki region has an unusually high concentration of active faults, largely because of the expansion of the Sea of Japan during the formation of the Japanese archipelago ... ( read original story ...)

JUIDA coordinates a six-company drone response to the 2026 Kumamoto earthquake, from indoor mall search to SAR damage mapping. ( read original story ...)

Now, however, Honda is saying that production will resume, and that workers will return after "construction" efforts have ended. ( read original story ...)

The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan-made drones played a role in rescue efforts that followed the earthquake that rocked Kumamoto prefecture nearly one month ago, showing the progress and challenges in an industry dominated by Chinese manufacturers. ( read original story ...)

Japan earthquake August 2026: Two significant earthquakes struck in a single day, a M5.9 intraslab event injuring 37 people across five Tokyo-area prefectures at 2 a.m. and a M6.0 Hokkaido quake that ... ( read original story ...)

A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 rattled the Tokyo area in the early hours of Sunday, Aug. 23 ( read original story ...)

The following is an earthquake alert issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency. ( read original story ...)