Japan is facing the risk of a possible "megaquake" in the near future, following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that occurred off ...

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

Japan's Meteorological Agency reported tsunami activity in the Izu Islands south of Tokyo on Monday morning. A 60 centimeter tsunami struck Hachijojima Island, and 50-centimeter tsunami waves hit ...

The biggest, but not necessarily the ... that was an 8 or a 9 in magnitude. This wave ran from California to Japan. Even the ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) initially warned of possible tsunami waves of up to one metre ... killing nearly 470 people in Japan’s biggest jolt in more than a decade, many of them ...

The earthquake causes a tsunami with 30-foot waves that damage several nuclear reactors in the area. It is the largest earthquake ever to hit Japan. The combined total of confirmed deaths and ...

Tsunami has reached the Amami Islands, with the waves of about 1.2 meters, the NHK TV channel reported on Saturday. There were no immediate reports about damage. According to the Japan ...

A powerful earthquake struck off Japan's southern coast on Thursday ... Miyazaki prefecture on Kyushu island. The agency said tsunami waves of up to 50 centimeters (1.6 feet) were detected ...

Tsunamis can be triggered as secondary disasters following megathrust earthquakes, with their intensity largely dependent on the magnitude of shallow seismic ruptures. Historically, considerable ...

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred in Japan ... s third-largest island, Kyushu, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said. Following the earth tremor, an almost ten-foot high tsunami reached the ...

Aldrich said the biggest lesson was ... dangerous is the possibility of tsunamis. During the 1980s and '90s, Japan constructed seawalls to hold back gigantic waves. But in 2011, a 40-foot tsunami ...