Japanese authorities issued a tsunami alert for the northeast of the country on Sunday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake was ...

A powerful earthquake has rattled northern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The quake, with a magnitude of 6.7, struck off the coast of Iwate prefecture on Sunday evening.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's Iwate Prefecture at 5:03 p.m. local time on Sunday.

Tokyo: Japan said Sunday evening tiny tsunami waves hit its northern Pacific coast after an offshore 6.7-magnitude earthquake ...

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 7.1, while the Japan Meteorological Agency put it at 6.9. P >The USGS says it was centered at a depth of 188 miles in the Izu islands off ...

The earthquake, which occurred at 17:03 (local time), registered a shindo level 4 in Morioka and Yahaba in Iwate Prefecture, ...

As catastrophic as the 2011 northern Japan quake and tsunami was—killing more than 15,000 people and causing more than $200 billion in economic damages—in a way, the country was lucky. Tokyo, a city ...

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