Japan completed the world’s first real-time ocean floor earthquake detection system in June 2025, giving 20 seconds more ...

The code took effect in 1924. In 1950, Japan enacted the Building Standard Law to further protect residents from building collapses and damage from extreme events such as typhoons and earthquakes.

People flocked to evacuation centers in affected areas of Japan, with memories fresh of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ...

Japan is frequently hit by earthquakes because of its location along the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. Over the last day, the nation has experienced ...

A tsunami warning of Monday’s had not been issued since 2011. At least 48 people have been reported dead amid the ongoing earthquakes in Japan that began on Monday.

Japan gets earthquakes every day – but viral predictions of a July 5 megaquake, from psychics to feng shui masters, have ...

SUZU, Japan (AP) — A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 62 people dead as rescue workers fought Wednesday to save those feared trapped under the rubble of ...

SUZU, Japan — A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 62 people dead Wednesday, as rescue workers fought to save those feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed ...

Japan is an extremely quake-prone nation, but a tsunami warning of the magnitude of Monday's had not been issued since a major quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant in March 2011.

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29, 2025, is now among the top 10 strongest ...

Powerful quakes strike Japan 36 photos Both of these earthquakes were strike-slip earthquakes, Stein said, which occur when two parts of the Earth's crust slide against each other.

SUZU, Japan — A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 62 people dead as rescue workers fought Wednesday to save those feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed ...