A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.7 killed two people when it struck near major Turkish and Greek tourist destinations in the Agean Sea on Friday, Turkish and Greek officials said. The quake, which struck at 1:31 a.m. (2231 GMT on Thursday), was located off the ...
An undersea earthquake off the coast of North Korea was not caused by a nuclear test, the South's media reported Thursday. The 5.9 magnitude quake struck about 190 km (120 miles) southeast of the reclusive state's third-largest city, Chongjin, in the early hours of Thursday, ...
A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Guatemala's coast Thursday, injuring four people and damaging homes and roads, officials said, just eight days after another strong emblor killed five people in the Central American country. The quake struck at 6:31 a.m. (1231 GMT) with its epicenter ...
A powerful earthquake struck an area southeast of the Indonesian city of Palu and nearest to the town of Poso on the island of Sulawesi on Monday, prompting people to flee from their homes though there was no tsunami warning issued, officials said. Sutopo Nugroho, ...
April 29-July 17 Born and raised in Gunma Prefecture, Amigo Koike worked as an illustrator after he quit college in the 1980s, and was a musician and DJ during the '90s. Focusing on local residents in Japan, Koike has organized events and workshops throughout the country, ...
Nagoya Castle's main concrete tower is set to be replaced in 2022 with a wooden structure more closely resembling the original keep as the city looks to attract tourists. The project will be the first of its kind for a Japanese castle, utilizing woodwork ...
Satsuki Sekine's home was destroyed in Japan's 2011 tsunami disaster and her family fled in the nuclear panic that followed. But crueler still were the insults and stigmatization she faced in the community where she sought refuge. Rather than offer sympathy, Sekine's new classmates bullied ...
At a laboratory an hour's drive from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, a woman wearing a white mask over her mouth presses bright red strawberries into a pot, ready to be measured for radiation contamination. Six years after a massive earthquake off the ...
About a month after the March 2011 disaster, an elementary school class in a tsunami-hit Tohoku region city was in uproar, with classmates taking out their nervous exhaustion on each other. After Honoka Tsuda threw a desk at a classmate, she and her classmates were ...
The surface level of the Pacific coastline in eastern Tohoku has been rising since sinking in the March 2011 giant earthquake, prompting action to lower the height of seawalls in some areas. The changing surface level reflects continued active crustal movements six years after the ...
A stranger visiting the fishing port of Kesennuma today may not realize that six years ago it suddenly became the scene of massive, deadly devastation. Much of the land in the port's waterfront area remains vacant, except for the foundations of hundreds of structures swept ...
March 1-April 30 In remembrance of the earthquakes that devastated Kumamoto Prefecture a year ago, The Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto looks back on the progress of reconstruction projects through art, architectural images, models and other designs, including works related to the reconstruction efforts after the ...
