The weather agency warned of major traffic disruptions in flat areas in the northern part of the Noto region in Ishikawa.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The strongest cold air mass of the season is likely to intensify snowfall and winds on the Sea of Japan coast from northern ...

On Monday evening, after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck southwest Japan, the authorities issued a tsunami warning.