Tag: earthquake

The epicenter of the Tōhoku earthquake that occurred off the coast of Japan in 2011 and damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant occurred in the relatively deep water of the Japan Trench. Yet ... ( read original story ...)

Many residents were given several seconds' warning before shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck east of San Jose this week. ( read original story ...)

Many residents were given several seconds' warning before shaking arrived from a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that struck east of San Jose this week. ( read original story ...)

In 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake caused tidal waves to smash into Fukushima, where they flooded the nuclear power plant's reactor cooling systems and triggered one of the world's worst ever nuclear ... ( read original story ...)

Toho has announced that production for the movie Suzume is complete, less than a month before the film’s opening day. Furthermore, Toho warned fans that there will be depictions of earthquakes and ... ( read original story ...)

The earthquake logged a lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, which peaks at 7 in some areas of Fukushima, according to the weather agency. There have been no immediate reports of major ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck northeastern Japan including Fukushima Prefecture on Friday afternoon, the w ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off Japan's Fukushima Prefecture in Japan's northeast on Friday, the weather agency said, although no tsunami warning has been issued. ( read original story ...)

A strong earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.1 hit Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, at 3:19 p.m. on Friday. ( read original story ...)

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off Japan's Fukushima Prefecture on Friday, the weather agency here said. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor, ... ( read original story ...)

North Korea has fired a series of ballistic missiles, and on Oct. 4 one of them flew over the Japanese archipelago for the first time in five years. T ... ( read original story ...)

About 40% of public housing provided for those affected by the devastating March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefe ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is considerably an earthquake-prone region. Thus, the Village House Vietnamese Customer Service Team in Kato City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, led an earthquake preparedness event for its ... ( read original story ...)

“Then they complain when they have a huge earthquake.” This seismic superstition is based on Japanese mythology, in which oarfish are seen as symbols of earthquakes and other catastrophe ... ( read original story ...)

A United Nations human rights expert is urging Japan’s government to provide evacuees from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster with more support, including housing, jobs and other needs, regardless o ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Meteorological Agency plans to start issuing alerts in February for long and slow tremors that would affect skyscrapers, as part of its early warnings for powerful earthquakes. ( read original story ...)