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, ...

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey -- Two years after earthquakes that killed more than 59,000 people in Turkey and Syria, Japan Inc. is ...

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 ...

Experts have cautioned that while small tremors help release some energy, they don’t eliminate the risk of a major quake.

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 ...

The quake collapsed buildings, shredded highways and killed ... possible tremors in coming days in the wake of that earthquake. Japan is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries ...

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 ...