In 2012, the Japanese government funded the multi-institute Tohoku Ecosystem–Associate Marine Sciences project to analyse the effects of the tsunami and other earthquake-associated environmental ...

In 2011, the deadliest quake and subsequent tsunami in recent Japanese history struck northwest of the capital Tokyo and killed at least 20,000 people. The 9.1 magnitude Tohoku earthquake spiraled ...

A strong earthquake shook the Tohoku region on the morning of April 2, but there were no reports of injuries and no tsunami threat. The quake struck at 4:24 a.m., with its epicenter off the coast ...

Last August, the Japan Meteorological Association (JMA) issued its first mega quake advisory under rules drawn up after the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011. It said that the ...

Before the magnitude-9 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 and resulted in the Fukushima nuclear accident that claimed over 18,000 lives, scientists documented a slow-slip event.

The district was engulfed by waves more than 10 meters high when the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake struck off the coast of the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, unleashing the tsunami.

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast ...

Japan saw its largest earthquake ever recorded in 2011, a magnitude-9.1 quake that struck the Tohoku region and caused a huge tsunami.

He explains how he searched for her for days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami a decade ago, visiting evacuation centers and makeshift morgues, returning at night to the rubble of their ...

Last August the Japan Meteorological Association (JMA) issued its first megaquake advisory under rules drawn up after the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of 2011. It said that the ...

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to investigate the plate boundary fault that ruptured during the Tohoku ...