Quake and Tsunami
April 19, 2012
A powerful earthquake striking under Japan’s crowded capital would kill an estimated 9,700 people, destroy hundreds of thousands of buildings and trigger a transportation...
April 19, 2012
A meeting between an artist and a resident whose pet died in last year's Great East Japan Earthquake led to a traveling exhibition now under way showing drawings of animals...
April 16, 2012
A new panel of experts convened by the Tokyo metropolitan government now estimates up to 10,000 deaths if a major quake struck directly under the capital.
April 16, 2012
Long-period seismic ground movements of the sort that struck Tokyo and Osaka during the Great East Japan Earthquake pose a serious threat to the framework of high-rise...
April 12, 2012
As if they haven't suffered enough, thousands of victims of last year's earthquake and tsunami disaster are being preyed upon by tricksters out to profit from their misfortune.
April 10, 2012
Shiro Higuchi thanks his lucky stars as his son had the foresight to build a family home that literally "lifts" on its foundations when an earthquake hits.
April 09, 2012
Japan Railway companies are establishing emergency escape routes for passengers and strengthening communications, saying at least 653 kilometers of tracks over 31 routes are at ...
April 08, 2012
A team of researchers has developed a way to map areas likely be swamped by towering tsunami based on data obtained during 10 minutes after a huge earthquake strikes.
April 07, 2012
An estimated 40,000 tons of debris set adrift in the Pacific Ocean by tsunami spawned by the Great East Japan Earthquake will reach North American coastlines by next February,...
April 07, 2012
Hundreds of large temblors were found to have struck in the sea off the eastern coast of the Tohoku region in the day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and went unrecorded...
April 04, 2012
LONDON--Children from a tsunami-stricken town in Iwate Prefecture have donated seeds of a Japanese red pine and other plants to express their gratitude for Britain's assistance ...
April 01, 2012
Towering tsunami up to 34.4 meters would batter Japan's Pacific coastline if an earthquake on the scale of last year's catastrophe struck along the Nankai Trough, according to...
March 31, 2012
Tokyo could experience more intense shaking in the event of a magnitude-7 earthquake than has been previously forecast, according to a new intensity distribution map released...
March 31, 2012
The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention will put seismometers and tsunami gauges at 154 locations on the Pacific seafloor off Japan’s...
March 27, 2012
SEATTLE - An empty Japanese fishing boat drifting off the coast of western Canada could be the first wave of 1.5 million tons of debris heading toward North America from...
March 21, 2012
An overwhelming 86 percent of people felt the presence of human bonds in society following the Great East Japan Earthquake, while 85 percent supported disaster victims through...
March 14, 2012
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit east of Tokyo on March 14 but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no initial reports of damage or troubles at...
March 14, 2012
In light of inaccurate data released after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Japan will begin an experiment from late March using the global positioning system to better...
March 12, 2012
From New York to Vienna to Bangkok, people young and old around the world prayed for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on the first anniversary of the...
March 11, 2012
Through silence and prayers, people across Japan on March 11 remembered the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19,000 people...