A powerful earthquake has struck Japan, causing large waves and damage to buildings. The 7.6-magnitude quake took place in Noto province on Honshu island, with officials urging people in coastal ...

Video has emerged showing the moment a group of people escaped a massive landslide in Wajima, Japan. The footage, taken on New Year's Day, was taken after a devastating magnitude 7.6 earthquake ...

But purchasing a used condo unit comes with pitfalls. Many such buildings only meet old earthquake resistance standards. As megaquakes are forecast to hit Japan within 30 years, seismic reinforcement ...

Tokyo: Japan was hit by a massive ... open in several areas while many buildings collapsed due to the powerful tremors. Road cracks caused by an earthquake were seen in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture.

TOKYO — A powerful earthquake shook Japan’s western coast on Monday, collapsing buildings, burying some residents and sparking evacuation warnings amid fears of a tsunami. The 7.6-magnitude ...

A powerful earthquake on New Year's Day 2024 ... The aftermath led to the drawing up of Japan's first quake-resistant building code. From then on new buildings would need to be reinforced with ...

Only about 15 percent of Japan’s 25,000 facilities ... police departments and fire department buildings. The results found that only 3,649 of them had earthquake-resistant water pipes connected ...

The hope is to reduce earthquake damage on the upper floors of high-rise buildings, primarily on the 14th or 15th floors and above. The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011 caused large and ...

The extent of the damage following a massive earthquake along ... activity of upper 5 on the Japanese scale was observed in a basement floor of the No.1 reactor building. They say two transformers ...

not made to withstand Japan's endless earthquakes. It has taken us two days to get this close to the epicentre of the earthquake, the country's most powerful in 12 years. We have lost count of how ...