Tag: earthquake

Some 4,000 wind chimes are on display in this northeastern Japan fishing community hit hard by tsunami triggered by the March 201 ... ( read original story ...)

After the death of her father and the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, Yukari Chikura found solace by travelling to a remote village to document the 1,300-year-old ceremony ... ( read original story ...)

It's not just Google that's trying to get a handle on earthquakes. The Linux Foundation and partners are working on an open-source earthquake early warning system as well. ( read original story ...)

Google will update its Android phones to incorporate California's earthquake early warning technology, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the tech giant announced Tuesday. "It's not every day that Silicon Valley ... ( read original story ...)

Only a handful of countries (Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, and China) have nation-wide earthquake early-warning systems. Isn’t that weird? Many other countries have alert systems in place for certain ... ( read original story ...)

Google is adding California's earthquake early warning system as part of its Android operating system for mobile phones. ( read original story ...)

For the first time in history, scientists have confirmed the existence of mysterious and extremely powerful ‘boomerang’ earthquakes, throwing open the possibility of even more devastating types of ... ( read original story ...)

The temblor shot across the seafloor and back to where it started so fast it created the geologic version of a sonic boom. ( read original story ...)

Neo Sora, director of “The Chicken,” playing in this year’s Locarno Festival short film competition, and his producer Albert Tholen have shared details on the filmmaker’s upcoming debut feature ... ( read original story ...)

Turkey, Alaska and Japan have all been hit by strong earthquakes today. Turkey was struck by an earthquake today, Tuesday, August 4, measuring magnitude-5.2 on the Richter scale. The earthquake ... ( read original story ...)

And the effect — of being forced by advancing technology to consider some horrendous natural disaster played out against the perma-crisis of the corona era — also felt cosily familiar. To live in ... ( read original story ...)

“In Australia we have earthquakes, they are not as frequent as active regions like Papua New Guinea or Japan, but still we have earthquakes,” Mr Ghasemi said. “The reason is the plate that we are ... ( read original story ...)

At a cost of $12bn, they are building a 15-metre-high anti-tsunami wall across 400 kilometres to divide the land from the ocean. But it is also dividing local communities. There are fears the wall ... ( read original story ...)

The Meteorological Agency issued an early warning Thursday morning that an earthquake that was expected to hit Tokyo and other neighboring areas. A quake w ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese weather agency said it issued Thursday morning a false strong earthquake alert to wide areas of Japan due to errors in l ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Japan . A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Japan early Thursday, the country's meteorological agency reported. The epicenter of the quake was on the deserted Tori-shima Isla ... ( read original story ...)