The building was rendered unusable by the tsunami spawned by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. Ten months later, Sakamoto visited the Miyagi Prefecture Agriculture High School in ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or ...

On 11 March, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake sent a tsunami hurtling towards Japan's east coast, killing 20,000 people, ...

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On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake sent a tsunami hurtling towards Japan's east coast, killing 20,000 people, wiping out 120,000 buildings and sparking a partial meltdown at the Fukushima ...

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Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Saitama Prefecture officials said the search for a missing 74-year-old truck stuck in a large sinkhole shifted to an ...

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred Saturday around 6:23 p.m. Eastern Time with an ...

The aim of the policy is to enable local governments that will provide support, and the prefectures expected to receive help, to conduct joint disaster drills and other preparations.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Honduras on Saturday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there is no longer a tsunami threat.