Similarities between the March 16 earthquake and a temblor that rattled the Tohoku region in February 2021 have fueled speculation that the offshore area has become an increasing hotspot for ...

That magnitude 9 event, called the Tohoku earthquake, also came from a subduction zone. It generated a tsunami that reached 130 feet high, inundated over 1,200 miles of coastline, and washed ...

The deadliest earthquake in Japan since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake caused a total of 401 deaths, injured more than 1,300 people and damaged 133,000 homes across nine prefectures. The 42-year-old ...

Snow was forecast for the northeastern Tohoku region on March 19, adding to the misery of work to repair damage from the powerful earthquake three days earlier. The Japan Meteorological Agency ...