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Shoji Morimoto who charges 10,000 yen ($71.30) per booking to accompany clients and simply exist as a companion, uses a mobile phone while meeting his client Aruna Chida at a cafe in Tokyo, Japan Augu ... ( read original story ...)

The death toll from Monday's 6.6-magnitude earthquake in southwest China climbed to 74 people on Wednesday with another 26 people still missing, officials said. ( read original story ...)

The biggest earthquake to hit Japan since records began 140 years ago struck the northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-meter tsunami that swept away everything in its path. Following are ... ( read original story ...)

Some 300 people attended a memorial event to commemorate the Korean residents massacred in the wake of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, held ... ( read original story ...)

Let's get you up to speed with the day's stories. Strong earthquake in China's Sichuan province kills 21 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday (Se ... ( read original story ...)

The specialist estimates that the next telluric movement could be similar to that of 2012.“With the earthquake rupture process, the fault ruptures. After the event (the fault) it enters a recovery ... ( read original story ...)

Social media is full of videos and photos of the destructive deluge in Pakistan. One such video supposedly from Karachi shows vehicles on the road being washed away by rushing water. But is this video ... ( read original story ...)

Using GRACE satellite data, researchers discovered anomalous gravimetric signals that occurred before a seismic event that started deep within Earth. ( read original story ...)

The government held an annual disaster drill Thursday, though again scaling it back to prevent the spread of COVID-19, based on the s ... ( read original story ...)

September 1 is Disaster Prevention Day in Japan. The Japanese government held a drill on Thursday based on the scenario of a massive earthquake striking the Nankai Trough off Japan's Pacific coast. ( read original story ...)

The Japan Meteorological Agency says an underwater earthquake observation system installed off the Pacific coast of central Japan has mostly been restored. ( read original story ...)

Japan will restart more of its nuclear plants and look into developing next-generation reactors, suggesting a possible shift in its energy policy. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also said Wednesday that ... ( read original story ...)

Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan, but authorities are warning the population is underprepared for a long-anticipated mega quake that could leave more than 4 million people stranded, and ... ( read original story ...)

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in January created an initial wave 90 metres high – almost the height of the Statue of Liberty (93m)University of Bath tsunami expert calls for ... ( read original story ...)

The initial tsunami wave created by the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in January 2022 reached 90 meters in height, around nine times taller than that from the highly ... ( read original story ...)

The weather agency said the offshore quake measured 4 on Japan's seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7 in some areas in Fukushima, as well as neighbouring Miyagi Prefecture. In northern Chiba, the ... ( read original story ...)