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Earthquake News: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on the Richter scale rocked Hokkaido island in Japan on Tuesday, the National Center for Seismology said. Hokkaido is the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, famous for its volcanoes, natural hot springs ... ( read original story ...)

Major Japanese media outlets carried no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the quake at 6.2. Earthquakes are common in Japan, which sits on the ... ( read original story ...)

A strong earthquake jolted northeastern Japan on Tuesday, said the Japan Meteorological Agency. According to the agency, the earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit off Aomori province in ... ( read original story ...)

Earthquakes are common in Japan, which sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of intense seismic activity that stretches through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. The country has strict ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 struck off Aomori Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Tuesday evening. The 6:18 p.m. quake registered 4 in parts of Hokkaido, Aomori ... ( read original story ...)

A magnitude 6.1 quake struck off Aomori in northern Japan on Tuesday, the weather agency said, but no tsunami warning was issued. A magnitude 6.1 quake struck off Aomori in northern Japan on Tuesday, ... ( read original story ...)

A team of experts has estimated that when a massive earthquake occurs along the deep sea Japan Trench, it would produce more waste than that from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The ... ( read original story ...)

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Honshu Island, in Japan. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre stated that the epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 10 ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake that measured 4.6 magnitude on the Richter Scale jolted Japan's Izu Islands on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. ( read original story ...)

An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter Scale struck Izu Islands, Japan on Friday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The Izu Islands are a group of volcanic islands stretching ... ( read original story ...)

An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter Scale struck Izu Islands, Japan on Friday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The Izu Islands are a group of volcanic islands stretching ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, March 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted 118 km NE of Miyako, Japan at 07:37:01 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 35 ... ( read original story ...)

Earthquake Lights are often described as luminous spheres, flashes, or streaks of light that appear in the sky, on the ground, or even underwater. ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government said Wednesday it will lift evacuation orders for parts of two towns near the crippled Fukushima nuclear powe ... ( read original story ...)

It started as a workshop on self-sufficient energy systems using batteries and solar panels in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and meltdown at Fukushima's Daiichi ... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Tuesday. ROME (Reuters) - Italy is wasting more and ... ( read original story ...)