The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...
According to Japanese mythology, the thrashing of a giant subterranean catfish causes the earthquakes that wreak havoc on the ...
An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale struck the Kyushu region in southwestern Japan on Monday, The Associated Press reported, citing the country's meteorological agency. The Japan ...
Experts have cautioned that while small tremors help release some energy, they don’t eliminate the risk of a major quake.
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake, measuring a lower 5 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale, struck southwestern Japan at 9:19 p.m. on Monday evening, according to the Meteorological Agency. The quake ...
TOKYO and LONDON -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said.
The agency said that on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7, the tremor had an intensity of lower 5. The earthquake occurred at around 9.19pm local time, ABC News reports. Japanese officials said the ...
By Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News Staff Though Maine is quiet seismologically compared with hotspots like California, ...