The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

A Japanese government panel also predicted that an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 could occur near the trench within 30 ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

A year after a natural disaster, the resilient artisans of Japan’s Noto Peninsula are forging ahead—with great help from the ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake was measured at a magnitude 9.0 ... "At the end of last year, I visited a Difficult-to-Return ...

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along fault lines between ...

Around the time that Roki Sasaki made his long-awaited decision to sign with the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles was reeling ...

Drought in the mountainous areas of central and northeastern Japan is contributing to the spread of forest fires on a scale not seen for over 30 years. The city of Ofunato, already devastated by the ...

Now, a University of Michigan study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Yihe Huang, lead author ...