The earthquake triggered a tsunami alert in Miyagi and Fukushima ... cut electricity to more than 2.2 million homes in the Kanto, Tohoku and other regions, including the Tokyo area.

In 2011, the deadliest quake and subsequent tsunami in recent Japanese history struck northwest of the capital Tokyo and killed at least 20,000 people. The 9.1 magnitude Tohoku earthquake spiraled ...

The magnitude-7.9 earthquake, which struck the Kanto region at 11:58 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1923, claimed 105,385 lives. According to a curator at the Ito board of education, a tsunami of around 5 ...

TOKYO, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Fukushima Prefecture's Aizu region early Thursday and the Japan Meteorological Agency has warned of potential aftershocks of similar ...

Japan saw its largest earthquake ever recorded in 2011, a magnitude-9.1 quake that struck the Tohoku region and caused a huge tsunami.

and giant tsunami waves engulfed a broad area of the Pacific coast of Tohoku to Kanto regions. The death toll from the series of earthquake and tsunami has exceeded 15,000, far outnumbered that of ...

Just days ahead of the anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated swathes of northeast Japan, there is growing concern that a new series of moderate quakes off the east ...