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A Race to the Root of Disaster Back in 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan. The ...

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Scientists have uncovered a hidden weakness beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s catastrophic 2011 ...

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 10:29 p.m. Japan time about 30 miles west of Tokyo, ...

A powerful earthquake has struck off Japan’s northern coast but there was no danger of a tsunami, the country’s ...

TOKYO (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan during rush hour on Thursday morning, but the country's meteorological agency said there was no danger of a tsunami and no ...

In 2011, Japan reeled from the effects of a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake. But unnoticed in the chaos resulting from the quake, its major aftershocks and the tsunami it caused, something ...

Japan’s catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to “slip,” in some areas by as much as five or six millimeters, according to new research.

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of Japan to move 5 millimetres to the east ...