On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country. Many buildings survived the ...

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward ...

The wave's round trip to Earth's core set off a fault slip along Japan's plate boundaries, revealing a seismic hazard ...

More than a decade after the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake, scientists have uncovered an unexpected aftermath that ...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeast coast, shaking for more than six minutes and ...

Learn how a seismic wave from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake reactivated plate boundaries beneath Japan and exposed a new earthquake hazard. The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake shifted Japan eastward ...

As the sun rose on the 14th anniversary of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, 28,000 people, with most from Fukushima ...

When the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake struck in the mid-afternoon, train services in the Tokyo metropolitan area came to ...

In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and ...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.1 megathrust earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. Violent tremors lasted for about six minutes, shifting the main island of Honshu up to eight feet east and ...

New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...