The Wakayama Prefectural Government will expand the area subject to its tsunami forecasts to cover the prefecture's entire coast in an effort to minimize damage from a major quake off central and western Japan. Starting in mid-September, the prefecture will provide its own tsunami forecasts, ...
Students scrambled to safety as sirens blared during a tsunami drill on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Tuesday, part of a campaign to prepare for disasters in the quake-prone country. Students at the Tanjung Benoa 2 elementary school took cover under their desks ...
Up to 80 percent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said on Monday, more than a decade after the region was hit by a tsunami that killed 226,000 people. A 9.15 magnitude earthquake struck off ...
The threats of terrorism and financial ruin are a constant worry for modern Olympic host cities, but Tokyo 2020 organizers face the added risk of a devastating earthquake or tsunami.
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 ...
Crown Prince Naruhito and a top national politician delivered keynote speeches on Thursday at a U.N. session on water and disasters, with both pledging Japan will share its knowledge to help communities around the world that are prone to water-related catastrophes. "Almost 90 percent of ...
Beachgoers held a hula dance in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday to celebrate the reopening of one of only three local beaches to recover from the March 2011 mega-quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. Usuiso Beach, one of the largest in the prefecture, drew about 260,000 ...
A project to restore a pine tree forest wiped out by the tsunami that destroyed Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, in March 2011 kicked off Saturday with the goal of having about 40,000 saplings planted on the city's coastline by March 2020. The replanting project has a ...
An anonymous person has willed roughly ¥40 million in savings and about ¥17 million in property to Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures on the condition the funds be used to support those orphaned by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. According to three prefectural governments, this ...
Governments of 100 countries still lacking disaster early warning systems have a duty to invest in the projects, which could save lives and property, and reap longer-term economic benefits, the U.N.'s meteorological agency said. With vulnerable countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands ...
The damages ruling against the city of Higashimatsushima stands after the Sendai High Court rules that city-run Nobiru Elementary shares blame for a girl killed by tsunami in 2011.
Yusaku Yoshida knew of a stone monument marking the high-water point of tsunami that hit the town of Otsuchi in 1933, but he realized local residents failed to recognize it when the March 2011 waves hit shortly after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake. After considering how to ...
