Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, given its location within the Pacific Ring of Fire, a ...

Researchers at Tohoku University's Department of Geophysics, have been studying the great Tohoku-oki earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, to the east of Japan's Honshu Island.

The massive Tohoku, Japan, earthquake in 2011 and Sumatra-Andaman superquake in 2004 stunned scientists because neither region was thought to be capable of producing a megathrust earthquake with a ...

A manga novel has predicted that a mega-earthquake will hit Japan today, July 5. The 2021 reprint of 'The Future I Saw' by Ryo Tatsuki warns that a "huge" tsunami will wash over countries in the ...

Japan's Tohoku earthquake in 2011 was felt by the GOCE satellite. Earthquakes rattle the ground, vibrating Earth's surface like the skin of a drum and sending low-frequency sound waves into the ...

A triple disaster — earth, water and nuclear — struck Japan on March 11, 2011, when the biggest earthquake in its history ripped the seafloor. The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami ...

Photos: Earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan. Officials decided that “Tohoku” was the key phrase in the name. “We could have used ‘Northern Japan,’ but that would have included ...

Japan's terrifying 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake unleashed about 1,000 years of pent-up pressure that was stored between two colliding tectonic plates.

A magnitude-6.9 earthquake rumbled through Japan yesterday near where the enormous 2011 Tohoku quake triggered a massive tsunami and caused widespread devastation. Some seismologists think that ...

The magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake, which struck two years ago today, was also powerful enough to slightly alter Earth's gravity field under Japan. Email Becky Oskin or follow her @beckyoskin.

Japan now faces its worst crisis since World War II. The 9.0 earthquake in northeast Japan/Tohoku was the largest in Japan’s recorded history. The extraordinarily enormous tsunami wave caused the most ...

"Suzume is very much rooted in the 2011 earthquake that hit the Tohoku region," Shinkai tells EW via a translator. "At the time I was in Tokyo, so a bit far from the epicenter of the earthquake.