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 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.

During the Great Kanto Earthquake, numerous aftershocks followed the main shock. Powerful shaking caused buildings to collapse, started large-scale fires, sent tsunami waves crashing into wide ...

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

Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To ...

Due to the extensive damage in Japan caused by the massive earthquake and resultant tsunami on March 11 ... a 150-meter section of the Great Kanto Highway in Naka was absolutely obliterated ...

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 ...