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A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit northeast Japan on Tuesday, sparking panic and triggering a tsunami including a one-metre (three-foot) wave that crashed ashore at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. National broadcaster NHK urged residents ... ( read original story ...)

All tsunami warnings and advisories have been lifted in Japan, seven hours after a powerful offshore earthquake triggered a series of moderate tsunami waves. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of waves of up to 3 metres (10 feet) soon after the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — A powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami off the coast of Japan early Tuesday, near where three nuclear reactors melted down at a plant in Fukushima after a quake and tsunami in 2011. Article by Motoko Rich Tuesday’s quake quickly brought ... ( read original story ...)

The tremor brought back bad memories of the 2011 quake and tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, reported CNN. The natural disaster hit just before 6 a.m. Japan time, shaking buildings as far as Tokyo. The quake was felt in Tokyo, about 150 miles away. ( read original story ...)

Dramatic video has captured a meteorite burning across the sky just hours after a huge 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Japan sending a tsunami cascading inland and up a river. The footage shows a flaming object trailing across the evening sky while the ... ( read original story ...)

Embed Feed 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami: Time-lapse aerial footage shows rebuilding efforts five years on from disaster IBTimes UK Mega earthquakes have been linked to how curvy the fault is, with a flatter fault more likely to produce magnitude 9 or ... ( read original story ...)

The report comes a day after a large earthquake with an initial magnitude measured at 6.9 struck off the coast of Fukushima, Japan. It’s near where a 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami killed thousands and led to a nuclear disaster. The Conference ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's arrangement, which cost more than $1 billion to build, includes an automatic earthquake location system based on hundreds of seismographs, along with pre-existing models of what tsunamis could be caused by 100,000 different earthquakes at 10,000 ... ( read original story ...)

The 6.9-magnitude earthquake last week off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, probably happened along the same fault that ruptured in 2011, unleashing a massive 9.0-magnitude temblor and resulting tsunami that caused widespread destruction. What makes this ... ( read original story ...)

Why is our Civil Defence still not up to scratch? * As it happened: Japan's 7.4 quake If you live near the sea and you feel a long strong earthquake, you should head for the hills immediately. Not many people did this. The warnings about tsunamis after ... ( read original story ...)

SNOW is falling in Tokyo for the first November in 54 years after Japan suffered a shock earthquake and tsunami. Astonishing video shows heaps of snow falling from the sky in Tokyo and settling on the city's streets. The Japanese capital usually sees a ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 has hit northern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency says, in televised tsunami advisories issued for much of the nation’s northern Pacific coast. The epicentre of the earthquake, which was felt in Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

All tsunami warnings have been lifted in Japan, seven hours after a powerful offshore earthquake triggered a series of moderate tsunami waves. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 shook western Japan on Saturday but there was no immediate reports of damage and a tsunami warning was not issued. The epicentre of the earthquake, which occurred at 11:48 a.m. (0248 GMT), was in ... ( read original story ...)

GeoNet seismologist John Ristau said in a live chat the revised magnitude of Monday's earthquake to 7.8, "has a significant effect on our probabilities since we now expect more larger aftershocks". In Japan, one of the most earthquake prone ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan early Saturday, but no deaths or damage resulted from the 6.2-magnitude tremor, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit 7.5 miles from Onagawa, near Sendai, at 6:42 a.m. The Japan ... ( read original story ...)