The Richter scale, which measures earthquake magnitude, is logarithmic, not linear. That means a magnitude 9 quake releases about 32 times as much energy as a magnitude 8 but about a million times as ...

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.

More than 30% of people in their 20s to 30s in Japan were unaware the government had issued an advisory for a potential ...

Causing 18,000 fatalities and great devastation in Japan, on March 11, 2011, a tsunami struck Japan that was triggered by a ...

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 ...

Agriculture expert Yamashita Kazuhito argues that the summer 2024 rice shortages in Japan were the result of government ...

HONG KONG, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 hit Southeast of Honshu, Japan at 1150 GMT on Monday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a ...

Japanese nuclear plant workers for the first time have removed a small amount of melted fuel from one of the Fukushima ...

Japanese company J-Power worked with the University of Tokyo to develop a new type of foundation for offshore wind turbines ...

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) records the latest earthquake in South Papua this Sunday morning, ...

The Yuremasu also incorporates the Japan Meteorological Agency’s earthquake early warning and forecast system for long-period earthquake ground motion. It responds to signals that come first so ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 shook eastern Cuba on Sunday, after weeks of hurricanes and blackouts that ...