March 11, 2016 is the five-year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster A magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan It was followed by a massive tidal wave that damaged the Daiichi ...

In 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a devastating tsunami, made particularly famous for causing the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Thirteen years later, an ...

Although that shaking caused little major damage — the biggest tsunami wave it produced would have ... than 18,000 people and touched off the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A similar pattern ...

SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Preparedness ... But Yamori warns that a tsunami can reach the shore within just a few minutes in some areas if a big quake occurs along the Nankai Trough.

In 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a devastating tsunami, made particularly famous for causing the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Thirteen years later, an international ...

Any tsunami could cause far more damage than the earthquake, as what happened in the horror 2011 wave that hit Fukushima. Masamasa Sato, chief of the crisis management department of Takanabe Town ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Fukushima Prefecture and nearby areas early Thursday, the weather agency said. No tsunami warning has been issued. The 2:49 a.m. quake ...

10, 2024. (Mainichi/Hideyuki Kakinuma) IWAKI, Fukushima -- The final exhibition encouraging owners to collect items that were swept away by the tsunami following the 2011 Great East Japan ...

Museums devoted to preserving memories of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster have turned to online activities to make up for plummeting visitor numbers due to the sixth wave of the COVID ...