A sudden explosion from a suspected gas leak blew out walls and windows in part of a northern Japanese town Thursday morning, killing one person and injuring 17 others. ( read original story ...)
Early earthquake alert system remains flawed but tolerated
The Asahi Shimbun aims “to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” through its Gender Equality Declaration. Inclusive Tokyo. Lets ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Brand New Bullet Train Is Earthquake-Proof
Japan began running a brand new bullet-train model earlier this month.New trains are always in development for Japan's high-speed Shinkansen system.The N700S has a first-of-its-kind battery power ... ( read original story ...)
Vancouver rocked by 5.4 magnitude earthquake just hours after Alaska is hit with huge 7.2 tremours
A MASSIVE 5.4 magnitude earthquake has rocked the west coast of Canada hours after Alaska was shaken by 7.8 mega-tremors. The major shaker erupted around 155 miles (250km) west of Vancouver Island ... ( read original story ...)
University students launch ‘easy Japanese’ videos to help foreigners amid pandemic
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 ...)