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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 ...)

Earthquakes have frequently been occurring near the Tokara island chain in southwestern Japan since Friday. The Meteorological Agency is calling on residents to stay on the alert for possible strong ... ( read original story ...)

Over 2,000 people have died after a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco on Friday night. The epicenter was in a mountainous region near Marrakech. Follow here for live updates. ( read original story ...)

I will likely get a text alert before the next strong North Coast earthquake. The ShakeAlert system is based on detecting fault rupture in the first second or two AFTER it begins and relaying text ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Fishermen and residents of Fukushima and five other prefectures along Japan’s northeastern coast filed a lawsuit on Friday (Sep 8) demanding a halt to the ongoing release of treated ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese Red Cross Society’s Tokyo chapter has canceled an exhibition on the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake that featured survivors’ “testimonies” created using generative artificial intelligence, ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday he explained Japan's stance on the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant to Chinese Premier Li Qiang on the ... ( read original story ...)

Footage of buildings jolted by tremors has been shared in social media posts in the Philippines that falsely claim it shows an "11.9 magnitude earthquake" in the US state of California in August 2023. ( read original story ...)

September 5, 1923It is not possible for imagination to picture in all its terrors the calamity which has befallen Japan. Nothing in the recorded ... ( read original story ...)

Despite significant improvements in the structural resilience of buildings since the Great Kanto earthquake, which took place 100 years ago in Japan, ... ( read original story ...)

From The Times, September 2, 1923By an inscrutable decree of Providence a great and progressive nation has been visited with a calamity, the full extent of whic ( read original story ...)

Quakes of this size could “challenge the survival of Japan as a state” and send economic shock waves around the globe, says Fukuwa Nobuo of Nagoya University. After the next Tokyo quake, recovering ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has urged people to act to protect their lives in a mock news conference for a national disaster drill on the centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake. ( read original story ...)

Japan on Friday marked the centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated the capital and surrounding areas, killing an esti ... ( read original story ...)