A Japanese expert on earthquake engineering has found that high-rise buildings in Thailand's capital of Bangkok swayed around ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck Nagano Prefecture in central Japan on Friday, with no tsunami ...

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 ...

The government on April 23 started 2025 operations of both its ordinary and special heatstroke alert systems to warn the ...

The megaquake has an 80 per cent chance of occurring within 30 years. A possible magnitude-nine earthquake along the Nankai Trough, a submarine trough near the South of Japan, may lead to up to ...

The trees in Okinawa began blooming in early January, and the flowering season has gradually moved northward along Japan’s ...

The ordinary alert system, operated by the Environment Ministry and the Japan Meteorological Agency, divides the country into ...

The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.

Earlier in August 2024, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued its first advisory of a megaquake along the Nankai Trough, which is a 900-km undersea fault that runs from Kyushu to Shizuoka.

Japan could experience once-in-a-century heatwaves every year if global warming spirals out of control, according to a warning from the country’s meteorological agency. A report released on ...