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 help fill this gap, a research team has investigated the connection between ...

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

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

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 ...

The earthquake causes a tsunami with 30 ... an eight-point International Nuclear Event Scale (lINES) scale. September 15, 2013 – Japan’s only operating nuclear reactor is shut down for ...

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, 89 earthquakes of intensity of 4 or higher on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 were observed nationwide from January to the end of April this year.

Also Read: Magnitude 6.9 earthquake rattles southwestern Japan, triggers tsunami warnings ... 9:46pm and was measured at 3.3 on the Richter magnitude scale, according to the National Centre ...

The geologist explained that Japan and California have advanced ... but there are not many. And so, the scale of earthquakes that we’re trying to listen for are just monumentally larger than ...

Countries such as Japan have invested in sensor technology ... While New England has seen few earthquakes on the scale of the ones in Maine and New Jersey, it does experience "microearthquakes ...

Powerful shaking caused buildings to collapse, started large-scale fires ... By comparison, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake caused some 17 trillion yen of damage, less than 20 percent ...

Centre is set to table the new income tax bill in Parliament today. According to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the ...