Tag: earthquake

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck northeastern Japan. Officials say there is no threat of tsunami. The Meteorological Agency says the quake struck at around 4:33 a.m. on Tuesday and the focus was 60 kilometers deep, off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, said the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Monday. According to the agency, ... ( read original story ...)

One of the world's largest earthquake simulators, built to better understand temblor mechanics, was demonstrated at a national res･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

The July 2017 torrential rain disaster sowed much destruction across Japan's northern Kyushu region, including wiping out a section of railway passing through this village. But six years later, the line has been restored to the local citizens and travelers in the form of a bus rapid transit (BRT) service, ( read original story ...)

Social media posts claim a video of a home's interior shaking shows an earthquake that hit Morocco in 2023. This is false; the clip was taken in Oita, Japan in January 2022 . ( read original story ...)

Japan will extend around $3 million in emergency aid to Morocco through humanitarian organizations after it was hit by a deadly earth ... ( read original story ...)

Facebook posts shared hundreds of times have misleadingly attributed old photos of earthquakes in Turkey and Japan to a September 2023 quake in Morocco which has claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 ... ( read original story ...)

Kansai Electric Power Co. on Friday rebooted its nearly 50-year-old No. 2 reactor at its Takahama nuclear plant in central J ... ( read original story ...)

The fires—which were foreseen and foretold by a contemporary seismologist—led to the first lessons in earthquake protection for schoolchildren in Japan after the earthquake. More recently, the history ... ( read original story ...)

Images shared on social media seem to show bright flashes of light streaking across the sky before a devastating earthquake hit the High Atlas mountains in eastern Morocco on Friday. ( read original story ...)

The story of the conflagration, not well-known outside of Japan, holds important lessons for earthquake scientists, emergency response teams and city planners, according to a new paper published in ... ( read original story ...)

Army troops and other rescuers rushed to save scores of trapped residents after two strong earthquakes in south-western Japan killed at least 41 people, injured about 1,500 and left hundreds of ... ( read original story ...)

Footage captured the mysterious phenomenon occurring before last week's quake in Morocco that killed thousands. ( read original story ...)

An earthquake swarm has hit close to Kagoshima Prefecture's Tokara Islands, with one location in the group's south registering more than 320 temblors between Sept. 8 and 12.The north of the island ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Trench is located on the "Pacific Ring of Fire," a region of special interest in earthquake and deep-water research. ( read original story ...)

April 25, 2015: In Nepal, more than 8,800 people are killed by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. — March 11, 2011: A magnitude 9.0 quake off the northeast coast of Japan triggers a tsunami, killing more ... ( read original story ...)