In areas where evacuation is challenging, tsunami evacuation towers have ... Along the coastlines in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, concrete seawalls are being built ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about what Japan will do with soil removed around the ...

The stairway, marked with an “evacuation” sign, was installed after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which spawned giant tsunami and claimed thousands of lives. When the man looked down ...

Events were held around Japan on March 11 to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, as attendees marked the exact time at 2:46 p.m. when the magnitude-9.0 ...

On March 11, 2011, the 9.0-magnitude Great East Japan Earthquake struck the country, making it the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan. The unprecedented disaster triggered a tsunami and ...

The chilling forecast is based on an earthquake and tsunami ... Japan's last "big one" was on March 11, 2011, when a magnitude nine undersea earthquake was recorded 45 miles east of the country's ...

There were no suicides related to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami and the ensuing nuclear disaster for the first time. Between 2011 and 2023, Japan saw a total of 252 suicides ...

Since the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Otsuchi ... students from other parts of Japan and overseas. “The Great East Japan Earthquake made the town of Otsuchi known to the entire ...

Unlike the M9.1 2011 Great East Japan earthquake ... in Alaska after our earthquake. But JMA’s tsunami alert was part of their earthquake early warning message sent to millions of cell phones ...

No damage has been reported from the area — some 283 km south-east of Nagasaki — and there is no tsunami alert at this time. Japan is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries ...

The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.