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 ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck off the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Fukushima on Friday, ...

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

The agency said that on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7, the tremor had an intensity of lower 5. The earthquake occurred at around 9.19pm local time, ABC News reports. Japanese officials said the ...

An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale struck the Kyushu region in southwestern Japan on Monday, The Associated Press reported, citing the country's meteorological agency. The Japan ...

April 17 (UPI) --A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit Japan at 11:14 p.m ... The 6.6 measurement was on the Japanese scale of zero to 7. The strongest measured impacts were in Ainan Town, Sukumo ...

Nearly 80 percent of municipalities within 30 kilometers of 15 nuclear power plants across Japan have a lower proportion of ...

TOKYO and LONDON -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said.