Tag: earthquake

TOKYO -- Japan held annual exercises on Friday to prepare for disasters but this year it was not just the danger of earthquakes and tsunamis that was on the minds of many people - the threat of North Korean missiles also loomed large. Japan is one of the ... ( read original story ...)

The earthquake had a depth of 6 miles (10km ... the launch of North Korea's latest long-range ballistic missile test which flew 1,700 miles over Japan. The dictator was pictured laughing with top officials as the Hwasong-12 was unleashed on Tuesday ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — In earthquake-prone Japan, the public has grown accustomed to seeing regular alerts on television and their cellphones advising them to seek cover or move inland in advance of a tsunami. But on Tuesday, residents received a rare warning ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck just 4km northwest of the Japanese city of Kitaibarakai in the Ibaraki prefecture on Sunday (Aug 27), according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The quake was reportedly felt in Fukushima and the capital Tokyo ... ( read original story ...)

... Japan’s very high awareness of electricity consumption — and efforts to conserve — since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the ensuing shutdown of its nuclear-reactor fleet. Just as important — and perhaps more significant going ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Naze in Japan on Thursday. Event id: us2000a8ey. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a8ey. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/08/17 / 2017-08-10 00:07:20 ... ( read original story ...)

The earthquake that struck Japan on Friday 11 March 2011 was the fourth most powerful in the history of seismology. It knocked the Earth six and a half inches off its axis; it moved Japan four metres closer to America. In the tsunami that followed ... ( read original story ...)

The most powerful earthquake yet recorded, in 1960 off Chile, sent 80-foot waves across 10,500 miles of ocean — and struck Japan, half a world away, killing 142 people there. Japan is a magnet for super-tsunamis, which recur at intervals of 800 to 1,000 ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan-Korea Society, the Japan-China Friendship Association ... will memorialize them together.” The Great Kanto Earthquake resulted in 100,500 deaths. ( read original story ...)

The most powerful earthquake yet recorded, in 1960 off Chile, sent 80-foot waves across 10,500 miles of ocean — and struck Japan, half a world away, killing 142 people there. Japan is a magnet for super-tsunamis, which recur at intervals of 800 to 1,000 ... ( read original story ...)

With Japan's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire making it prone to earthquakes, citizens are continually finding ways to protect the country's infrastructure. CNN reports that textile company Komatsu Seiren has created threads made from thermoplastic ... ( read original story ...)

On March 11, 2011, a massive offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami that eventually led ... said in an interview from Japan. “It makes you realize the importance of doing a good job and seeing how it affects people, especially since a lot of us are ... ( read original story ...)

Keita Era, an Analyst based in Tokyo, tells us about his volunteer work with those badly affected by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011 – and the fulfilment he gets from supporting them back into meaningful jobs. I joined Barclays in 2010 on their ... ( read original story ...)

The phone has been visited by at least 25,000 people since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, people who have come to convey their feelings to departed loved ones “through the wind.” The phone was set up by 72-year-old garden designer Itaru ... ( read original story ...)

“At the time of [Japan’s] earthquake [and subsequent tsunami] in 2011, the yen rallied against almost everything else. This kind of repatriation is typical, so there’s a precedent here despite the geographical closeness [to North Korea] and the fact ... ( read original story ...)

In the days leading up the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, around 20 of the fish purportedly washed ashore. Dozens were discovered by Japanese fishermen around the time a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile in March 2010. ( read original story ...)