NEWSWORTHY
Powerful underwater quake strikes off Norwegian Arctic island
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck in the Arctic Ocean Friday, northwest of a largely uninhabited and remote Norwegian island, officials said. No injuries or damage were reported. The Norwegian earthquake center NORSAR says the quake was recorded at 2:49 a.m. ...
Scandal-hit KYB Corp. on Tuesday projected a consolidated net loss in fiscal 2018, its first in three years, lowering its bottom-line forecast to a loss of ¥2.3 billion ($196.8 million) from ¥16 billion in profit. The downward revision for the year through March 2019 is ...
Tepco offers English-language virtual tour of crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has launched an English-language online virtual tour of the interior of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant, allowing website visitors to check the progress of decommissioning work following the 2011 meltdowns — one of the world's worst ...
KYB names 20 more buildings with problematic earthquake shock absorbers
KYB Corp. has identified 20 more buildings using earthquake shock absorbers for which inspection data had been manipulated or was believed to have been manipulated, including one of the company's own plants. At nine buildings, including NHK's Kagoshima broadcasting center and the Saitama Cancer Center, ...
NHK expands disaster-related push notifications to include Chinese language
Public broadcaster NHK said Thursday it will now provide push notifications in Chinese for disaster-related information via the NHK World news app amid a growing number of Chinese visitors to Japan. The move comes after Japan experienced a wave of natural disasters this year, including ...
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck New Zealand's north island on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey said, a tremor felt by thousands of people although there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Parliament was briefly suspended in Wellington and some flights aborted ...
Indonesia's quake and tsunami hit city of Palu faces health crisis a month after disaster
Indonesia's quake- and tsunami-battered city of Palu is facing a public health crisis as torrential rains threaten to spread malaria and dengue fever to the devastated region a month after the disaster, aid agencies have warned. On Sept. 28, a magnitude 7.5 quake and a ...
In survey of Japan's makers of quake shock absorbers, 81 firms say they haven't fabricated data
Eighty-one of 86 Japanese makers of earthquake shock absorbers that have filed reports with the ministry found no instances of product quality data fabrication, infrastructure minister Keiichi Ishii said Friday. After major hydraulic machinery-maker KYB Corp. admitted to fabricating data on shock absorbers installed in ...
Quake-hit Kumamoto looks to reopen access to tourist attractions in time for Rugby World Cup
The city of Kumamoto plans to take advantage of next year's Rugby World Cup to revive its struggling tourism industry by offering visitors special access to a famous castle currently undergoing repairs following a pair of powerful earthquakes in 2016. The quakes, which both measured ...
Three large quakes earthquakes strike off Canada's west coast
A series of three strong earthquakes struck off Canada's west coast late Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of casualties, damage or tsunami from the quakes, the first of which struck just before 11 p.m., around 190 km ...
On the list was the Finance Ministry in Tokyo as well as the Osaka and Hokkaido prefectural government offices.
Indonesian authorities on Thursday used helicopters to drop disinfectant on parts of the earthquake-and-tsunami-ravaged city of Palu, where thousands of decomposing bodies are still buried beneath once-thriving neighborhoods. The magnitude 7.5 quake and a subsequent tsunami razed swathes of the city on Sulawesi island on ...
