Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

On New Year’s Day 2024, a powerful earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, shaking homes, toppling buildings, and leaving scientists stunned. This video explores why this disaster was so unexpected, ...

Turkey -- Two years after earthquakes that killed more than 59,000 people in Turkey and Syria, Japan Inc. is stepping up efforts to provide Turkey with technology and services to help buildings ...

Said buildings do not meet the current criteria for withstanding earthquakes of intensities registering on the upper end of 6 to 7 on Japan’s seismic scale. The law was further amended in 2013 ...

Since many of the damaged houses are traditional, picturesque buildings, concerns are rising that their demolition could ...

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 ... falling debris from trees, buildings, overhead wires or ...

The current standards require houses to withstand earthquake intensities of upper 6 and 7 on the Japanese scale of 7. The magnitude-7.6 earthquake on New Year’s Day registered 7 in Shika and ...

A professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Kobe University Hospital, KOTANI ...

Built on artificial islands described as a 'sponge', Kansai International Airport in Japan is slowly sinking into the water - ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or ...

What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a theory.