Topic: Japan Meteorological Agency

Magnitude 5.5 quake shakes Japan

A magnitude-5.5 earthquake rattled Yamanashi prefecture in central Japan on Saturday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. There were ...

Japan storm death toll rises to 25, more missing

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's death toll from tropical depression Talas, earlier downgraded from a tropical storm, has risen to 25 with 52 missing, the government said Monday, as torrential rain pounded the west of the country at the weekend, triggering mudslides and ...

Earthquake hits northwestern Japan, no tsunami warning issued

TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit central Japan on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.The epicenter of the earthquake was in Nagano prefecture, the agency said, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued.(Reporting ...
TOKYO - A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rattled northeast Japan early Thursday in the same area where a massive quake triggered a deadly tsunami in...

New eruption at Japan's Aso caldera

Don't fill in this field Eruptions Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . Japan has had a quite a year within geologic activity - some of it very tragic, some...

'Earthquake sickness' hits Japan

An increasing number of people are experiencing motion sickness in Japan due to hundreds of aftershocks since the massive earthquake of March 11, physicians say."We are seeing a sharp increase in the number of patients complaining of dizziness," the Mejiro University ...

Tohoku Earthquake The Morning After

????Both the Japanese and English press in Japan devote most of today's newspapers to the megaquake and huge tsunami that has ravaged a large area...

Tohoku Earthquake Update

????The scale of the devastation is becoming clear after the huge earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the Tohoku region of north eastern Japan...
The biggest earthquake to hit Japan since records began 140 years ago struck the northeast coast on Friday, triggering a 10-metre tsunami that...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 jolted islands in the Pacific southeast of mainland Japan on Wednesday and a tsunami warning was issued, the...