With local residents moving in droves to Sendai and elsewhere ... But the tsunami and subsequent fires triggered by the earthquake killed 659 residents. Yutaka Ikarigawa, the mayor at the time ...

SENDAI--Fumihiko Imamura ... have prepared him for the towering waves generated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake that claimed countless lives in the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan.

That’s an earthquake. A road in Noto peninsula ... “And that’s what everyone did in 2011.” On Japan’s Sendai plain, “where there’s nowhere to go”, they climbed specially designed ...

On Boxing Day 2004, a monstrous 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian ocean, unleashing widespread devastation in the ...

Japanese utilities restarted two additional nuclear reactors in 2024 that had been suspended from operations in response to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident, taking the total number of restarted ...

Japan’s biggest earthquake hit the country on March 11 ... where 33-foot-high waves hit the city of Sendai. The tsunami caused a major incident at the Fukushima nuclear plant, as the waves ...

Japan’s insurance giants are selling over RM250b in shares after getting caught colluding in the wake of costly disasters ...

Vanuatu experienced another harrowing reminder of its vulnerability to disasters: a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific nation's capital Port Vila, leaving 12 dead, more than 200 ...

About 40% of nuclear reactors at nuclear power plants around the world in 2025 will have been operating for at least 40 years ...