The "Luminarie" illumination event opens on Jan. 24, 2025, in Kobe in memory of the victims of the January 1995 Great Hanshin ...
The new threat level issued by Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee is similar to estimates published in the journal ...
Dashcam footage of the earthquake in Japan on New Year’s Day 2024 has been mislabeled online as showing the magnitude 6.8 ...
U.S. Army aviators and Japanese troops are participating in Nankai Rescue, a U.S.-Japan disaster drill that kicked off Monday ...
The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...
A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami ...
On Jan. 17, 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing about 5,500 people.
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan late on Monday, causing two small tsunamis in the area but no damage reported. The quake struck at a depth of 36 kilometres around 18 ...
According to Japan's Earthquake Research Committee, there’s an 80 percent chance that a megaquake could occur in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years. That's slightly up from the 70 to 80 ...
Japan intensified its scientific efforts to survey active faults and publicly disseminate seismic risk information in the aftermath of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that leveled parts of Kobe and ...
Mourners observed a moment of silence before dawn at 5:46 am, the exact time that the quake -- Japan's second deadliest since ...
On January 17, 1995, an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 devastated large parts of central Japan and caused the deaths of 6,434 people. In Kobe, residents observed a moment of silence at 5.46am – the ...