A powerful earthquake rocked ... forcing families celebrating New Year's Day to take cover and many to evacuate amid urgent tsunami warnings in western Japan. The intensity of the quake was ...

Powerful aftershocks rocked central Japan on Tuesday morning as the death toll from a New Year’s Day earthquake rose to 48. Several strong jolts were felt throughout Ishikawa prefecture on the ...

The powerful earthquake that hit central Japan on New Year's Day killed at least five people, as police and local authorities early on Tuesday reported cases of bodies being pulled from the ...

Homes collapsed when a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the remote Noto peninsula on New Year's Day When a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit Japan's remote Noto peninsula on New Year's Day, millions of ...

A woman in her 80s has been pulled from the rubble of her collapsed house in Japan, 72 hours after the New Year's Day earthquake. Public broadcaster NHK showed video of the woman being lifted out ...

The death toll from Japan's devastating New Year's Day earthquake has risen from to more than 160, authorities say. Efforts are continuing to find more than 100 people who remain missing a week later.

The earthquake, which took place on New Year's Day, has left a trail of destruction across Ishikawa Prefecture The power of the magnitude 7.5 quake in Japan can be seen in just how much the ground ...

Professor Nishimura Takuya of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University ... says the fluids may have triggered the New Year's Day earthquake. He says careful attention ...

The extent of the damage following a massive earthquake along the Sea of Japan ... Kyoto University, who has been analyzing the situation, says the fluids may have triggered the New Year's Day ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

My mother used to make hers Kyoto ... day of the New Year. In the city, I rarely see people pounding rice anymore, and the kadomatsu decoration is out of fashion. I believe, however, that the spirit ...

The myth was rekindled in 2011 after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Shortly before the disaster, at least a dozen of the rarely-seen fish washed ashore in Japan in late 2009 and 2010.