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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...