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

TOKYO, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck off the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Fukushima on Friday, the country's weather agency said.

According to Japanese mythology, the thrashing of a giant subterranean catfish causes the earthquakes that wreak havoc on the ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5. ... Hinoemata and 4 in another part of the same village, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake, which occurred at a depth of 4 ...

February 13, 2021 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake off the east coast of Japan is an aftershock of the 2011 quake, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. April 13, 2021 – The Japanese ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - Media OutReach Newswire - 20 February 2025 - On January 27, 2025, Tenchijin announced the launch of "Thermo ...

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 government will release up to 210,000 tons of its stockpiled rice, farm minister Taku Eto says, in a bid to ensure smooth ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, at 2:49 a.m. on ... prefecture's Hinoemata Village. The Meteorological Agency estimates that the focus was at ...

Ten years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Japan Meteorological Agency will no longer describe a quake occurring off Tohoku as "likely an aftershock," starting from April 1. That's ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - Media OutReach Newswire - 20 February 2025 - On January 27, 2025, Tenchijin announced the launch of“Thermo ...

A strong offshore earthquake struck Oita and Miyazaki ... The quake hit at 1:08 a.m. and registered upper 5 on the Japan Meteorological Agency’s intensity scale of 7 in the two prefectures ...