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A book exploring the tragedy of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of 2011 has won the Rathbones Folio Prize. Richard Lloyd Parry’s non-fiction work, Ghosts Of The Tsunami, is labelled the definitive book on the quake which killed more than 15,000 ... ( read original story ...)

May 9 (UPI) --A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan and a 5.1-magnitude ... its platforms related to the upcoming abortion referendum in Ireland. China, Japan, South Korea agree on 'complete denuclearization' 3 hours ago ago May 9 (UPI ... ( read original story ...)

A rare magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck in the Gulf of Mexico about 160 miles ... lt;img class="styles-A54tP4F3__noscript__12c_l" src="https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/whale-japan.jpg?v=at&w=320&h=180&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0" srcset ... ( read original story ...)

Japan Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Note: Data series only dates back to March 2011. That month may have been unusually weak due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. ANA, however, has been busy consolidating — buying AirAsia ... ( read original story ...)

Similar claims have been made for other regions of Japan for decades, but Japan has reportedly had little luck predicting major earthquakes despite pouring significant financial resources into prediction research. Keiichi Ishii, the land minister ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Ushiku in Japan on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.78 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000dz7l. Ids that are ... ( read original story ...)

Earthquakes Hawaii has been rattled by more than 1,000 earthquakes ... Officials are continuing to monitor the situation, hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2011 tsunami, which devastated Japan before striking Hawaii and reaching California. ( read original story ...)

RMS, the leading global risk modeling and analytics firm, announced today the release of its new Japan Earthquake and Tsunami High Definition (HD) model. RMS has collaborated with local experts, scientific agencies and insurers to develop a model that ... ( read original story ...)

Catastrophe risk modelling and analytics specialist RMS has announced the launch of a new and updated high-definition risk model for Japanese earthquake and tsunami risks, which incorporates the latest seismic map data as well as learnings from the Tohoku ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported Hokkaido, Japan region kilometers (0 miles) from Hokkaido, Japan region on Monday. Global time and date of event 09/04/18 / 2018-04-09 21:25:16 / April 9, 2018 @ 9:25 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 156 km S of Oyama, Japan (97 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 321.42 km (200 miles). ( read original story ...)

The earthquake on March 11, 2011, was the largest ever to hit Japan. A tsunami with 30-foot waves followed; nearly 20,000 people died, and 2,500 were never found. "Before 2011, I had never thought about disaster prevention deeply," Tanaka, 29, wrote in an ... ( read original story ...)

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/18 / 2018-04-23 17:10:30 / April 23, 2018 @ 5:10 pm. Unique identifier: us1000dqs6. ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Naze in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 24.75 km (15 ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Kushiro in Japan. Global time and date of event 20/04/18 / 2018-04-20 10:45:50 / April 20, 2018 @ 10:45 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 144 ... ( read original story ...)