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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 ...)

The epicentre of the earthquake was 41.7 kilometres beneath the Pacific seabed, less than 50 kilometres off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, the USGS said on its website ... ( read original story ...)

Provided by News18 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes off Japan Coast: US Geological Survey . Tokyo: A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan early on Monday ... ( read original story ...)

A strong earthquake shook the Ogasawara Islands south of mainland Japan Saturday. The United States Geological Survey said the quake measured 6.6 in magnitude. The quake was centered in the Pacific ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale on Saturday struck off the west coast of Japan's Ogasawara Islands. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the temblor occurred with its ... ( read original story ...)

The magnitude 6.9 quake Saturday evening occurred in the Pacific Ocean west of Japan's Ogasawara island chain. ( read original story ...)

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TOKYO, April 18 -- A strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the Ogasawara Islands 1,000 kilometres away from Tokyo on Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The epicentre of the earthquake ... ( read original story ...)

Low-frequency earthquakes are a particular class of slow earthquakes that provide a unique source of information on the physical processes along a subduction zone during the preparation of large ... ( read original story ...)

Among those who mourned victims of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes four years on were the parents of Hikaru Yamato, a 22-year-old student fr･･･ ... ( read original story ...)