Japan intensified its scientific efforts to survey active faults and publicly disseminate seismic risk information in the ...
A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami ...
KYOTO--Researchers here unearthed the stone ... earned the moniker “fabled castle” because it was destroyed in an earthquake soon after its completion. Historical documents that mention ...
Etsuko Sato, a resident of the Hyogo Prefecture city of Kakogawa, receives an email on Jan. 17 every year -- the anniversary ...
An earthquake expert at Kyoto University says the tremor on Monday could have occurred where tectonic plates meet. Assistant Professor Yamashita Yusuke of Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention ...
on December 21, 1946, an earthquake of considerable severity originated ... Kure, Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, and Wakayama. The area severely shaken was more than 400 miles long and 150 miles wide ...
Professor Nishimura Takuya of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University ... fluids may have triggered the New Year's Day earthquake. He says careful attention should be ...
Immediately after the earthquake universities and other institutions initiated research on measurement of the temblor, including its aftershocks, with the help of special funds from the Government.