Today’s set of earthquakes follow a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan’s Iwate Prefecture at 5:03 p.m. local time on Sunday that prompted a tsunami warning. Since then, at ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency says the magnitude 6.7 quake occurred off Iwate shortly after 5 p.m. local time. It had an intensity of 4 on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7 in the hardest-hit areas of ...

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the earthquake occured at 5.03 pm (local time). Waves of up to 1 meter were possible along the Iwate coast ...

A confirmed earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 at 3:25 p.m. PST, 315 miles southwest of Bering Island, Komandorski, and 80 miles southeast of Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, in Russia, has started a slew of ...

Northeastern Japan is prone to earthquakes, including a triple disaster of a quake, tsunami and a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, just south of Iwate, in March 2011, that killed nearly 20,000 people, ...

TOKYO – Tsunami waves up to 20-centimeter high reached the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Sunday afternoon following an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.9. The ...

A powerful earthquake, with an upgraded magnitude of 6.9 and a depth of about 12 miles, struck off the coast of northern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The earthquake, recorded at 5.03 pm, produced shaking equivalent to shindo 4 (Japanese seismic scale) in Morioka city and the ...

After super typhoon Uwan, Filipinos are worried about the possibility of a tsunami after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Japan.

A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that struck off the coast on Sunday evening, measuring a 4 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale. Waves of up to 1 ...

With the district's population continuing to decline since the disaster, an official said, 'We want the winery to become a ...