On April 15, the day after the first earthquake struck Kyushu, all of the nation's major newspapers carried the same headline: "Shindo 7 in Kumamoto." No further explanation was needed. When Japan's ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is different ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recorded a tectonic earthquake with a magnitude of 4.4 shaking the southern region of West Java from Sukabumi to Garut on ...

First, enter the address of the place you want to check with the earthquake hazard chart. This time I will check the earthquake risk in Osaka prefecture Osaka city, so when I enter the address, click ...

Tsunami advisories (marked in yellow) appear over a wide area following the quake near Torishima in the Izu Island chain in this image from the Japan Meteorological Agency website. TOKYO -- An ...

An earthquake with a distant epicenter and a relatively modest seismic intensity could still cause such large and lengthy swaying in high-rise buildings that would topple people on the upper floors.