The earthquake's epicentre was located in Shimane Prefecture.

A house lies in the sea off a village near the Onagawa nuclear power plant on March 20, 2011, nine days after the deadly earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern coast of Japan's main island ...

The quake registered an intensity of upper-5 on Japan’s 1-7 seismic scale in the prefecture.

Japan was struck by a new 6.9-magnitude earthquake on Friday morning, hitting a similar area of the Pacific coast to Monday night’s powerful 7.5-magnitude tremor. The new quake off Aomori prefecture ...

TOKYO: An earthquake with ⁠a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 hit the western Chugoku region of Japan on Tuesday (Jan 6), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, followed by a series of sizeable ...

Japan is on alert after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck its northern regions late on Monday, prompting tsunami warnings and a rare government advisory about the possibility of a “megaquake” over the ...

Earthquake intensity is a critical metric used to assess the impact of seismic activity on communities. In this case, the maximum intensity recorded was level 1, which typically signifies that the ...

PM, a minor earthquake measuring a magnitude of 3.4 struck the southern region of Hokkaido, Japan. The tremor was shallow, with no tsunami threat reported, ensuring that residents were not in ...

A magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, injuring more than two dozen people and prompting authorities to issue evacuation orders for more than 100,000 people. The ...

A powerful tremor shook western Japan on Tuesday, rattling the prefectures of Shimane and Tottori and sending waves of alarm through the region. Measuring a magnitude of 6.2, the earthquake struck ...