Japan’s plans to transform the remote uninhabited island of Mageshima into a strategic military hub have hit a wall.

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The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ... Prefecture and upper 5 in parts of Tokyo to a barely perceptible 1 in Kyushu. There have been only five occasions when a level 7 was recorded ...

Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2025 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event, but triggered by a mineralogical shift in Earth’s mantle.

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Myanmar in the early hours of Friday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to NCS, the magnitude 4.8 earthquake ...

Until Jan. 7, when fires began to destroy thousands of buildings and claim at least 28 lives, my biggest fear about living in California was earthquakes, thanks to a 2017 trip to the San Andreas ...

The United States Geological Survey confirms an earthquake happened in New Jersey Friday afternoon. The magnitude 2.4 earthquake was centered near Paramus, according to the USGS, and occurred ...

A shocking accident occurred in which a road suddenly collapsed, even though there had been no earthquake, and a truck ...