Tag: earthquake

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 struck Japan's Ogasawara Islands, with no tsunami warnings issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said on Friday. According to the JMA, the ... ( read original story ...)

Criticized for filming the destruction at the time, the filmmakers involved have provided a look into how people responded to a 7.9-magnitude quake 100 years ago. ( read original story ...)

A senior Ukrainian official in charge of agriculture has indicated that his country can learn lessons from the revival of farming in Japanese regions hit by the massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami. ( read original story ...)

With this year marking the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake, a documentary film is being produced focusing on three cameramen who captured raw and confronting footage from Tokyo in the ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese architect and NGO officials have visited southern Turkey to build "instant houses" for quake survivors. ( read original story ...)

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on Richter scale Sunday struck north of Japan's Bonin Islands. There were no reports of ... ( read original story ...)

The strongest earthquake in Japan's history (and the fourth most powerful since the beginning of modern records in 1900), it caused more than 19,000 deaths and led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It is sometimes referred to simply as "3/11" in Japan, the way Americans refer to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks as "9/11." ( read ...

In April 2016, two earthquakes registering a maximum of 7 on Japan's 7-point seismic intensity scale struck the region -- a first in recorded history. Including disaster-related deaths, 276 people ... ( read original story ...)

Tōhoku earthquake changed his career. With the new film 'Suzume,' the Japanese filmmaker recounts it directly for the first time. ( read original story ...)

Did you know the U.S. National Earthquake Information Center logs the measurements of 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year—approximately 55 a day? ( read original story ...)

A memorial ceremony has been held in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, to mark the seventh anniversary of a series of deadly earthquakes. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Three pictures depicting an Indian elephant being led to safety through a chaotic scene following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake have been discovered at Japan's oldest amusement park. This undated photo believed to be that of Torizo Fukui ... ( read original story ...)

In 2011, Japan faced an unprecedented energy crisis after the Tohoku earthquake had devastated the country and badly damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The country’s entire nuclear fleet – 54 plants in total – was shut down for safety ... ( read original story ...)

The Kamchatka Peninsula, which extends into the Pacific Ocean, is one of the world's most concentrated areas of geothermal activity, with about 30 active volcanoes. Tuesday's volcanic eruption spewed ... ( read original story ...)

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia (Reuters) -One of Russia's most active volcanoes erupted on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, shooting a vast cloud of ash far into the sky that ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima reactor into the ocean has its supporters but is causing ripples in the Pacific.      Sometime in the next few months, ... ( read original story ...)