Search Results for 'Japan'

Japan earthquake: death toll passes 10,000

The National Police Agency have announced that 10,019 people are now known to have died while 17,541 remain unaccounted for. A further 250,000 people are living in temporary facilities while announcers on radio stations are reciting long [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Earthquake Rebuilding Effort Will Outweigh Japan Slump, BOJ ...

Efforts to rebuild Japan after its record earthquake will offset the initial toll the disaster will take on gross domestic product, the head of the Bank of Japan’s Osaka branch said. “In terms of GDP, it is fully possibl [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Japan Earthquake: Radiation Leak Halts Work at Damaged React...

Work to stabilize the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was halted early Wednesday because radiation leaking from the units made the situation unsafe, Japanese officials said. Radiation levels started to rise [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Will earthquake mean a third lost decade for Japan?

Even its banks were poised for domination. Economists were confidently predicting that in just 10 years, Japan would be vying with the US to become the world's largest economy. Roll the clock forward two decades and the picture could [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Asian supply chain rattled by Japan quake, tsunami

Thousands of people have been killed and millions have been left without water, electricity, homes or heat after Friday's 8.9 magnitude quake triggered a massive tsunami which tore across a wide swath of coastline north of Tokyo. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Japan earthquake: 7.2 tremor shakes Tokyo buildings

The tremor was centred 168km (104 miles) from the east coast, north-east of Tokyo. A 60cm (24in) tsunami reached the coastal town of Ofunato, with other towns reporting smaller waves shortly after the quake hit at 1145 (0245 GMT). There [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Earthquake hits central Japan

A 5.0-magnitude quake hit areas some 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Tokyo Sunday as Japan's early warning system kicked in to alert residents to the tremor. The earthquake caused no tsunami and there were no reports of damage or [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Strong earthquake hits northern areas of Japan

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan early today, but there was no tsunami warning and no immediate reports of damage, US and Japanese seismologists said. The underwater quake happened at 6:56am (2156 GMT Sunday) off Iwate prefe [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Japan rocked by 6.4-magnitude earthquake, one aftershock

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake has been reported southeast of the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. There have been no immediate reports of any significant damages or alerts of a tsunami. On Wednesday, Japan was hit with a 6.4-magnitude earthq [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Chile's earthquake swarm continues, 6.6m in Japan

Chile's earthquake swarm still continues as they had more than 6 earthquakes ranging on the 5 magnitude. However these earthquakes are not as big as the last week's part of the earthquake swarm where most earthquakes measured abo [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Japan Rocked By 6.8 Earthquake

South-west Japan was rocked on Friday by an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale. According to officials, there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake, originating off the coast of Amami Oshima island 31 miles below the o [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Japan hit by third strong earthquake

The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 and originated 40 km below the surface of the sea off Hachijo Island, south of Tokyo. The tremor on Tuesday morning, in which a woman was killed when a bookcase collapsed on her and 110 people were inju [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Strong earthquake shakes Japan

The earthquake – the second in two days - measured 6.5 on the Richter scale. It struck shortly after 5am with an epicentre located in the Pacific Ocean around 105 miles south-west of Tokyo. Residents in the capital were woken in the e [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Magnitude-6.5 earthquake hits off the coast of Japan

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake hit off Japan's southern coast today, the country's Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The quake hit at 9:18 a.m., local time, off the coast of Miyakojima, a south [...]