Japanese authorities issued tsunami alerts after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the country's north on April 20, 2026, but footage circulating online showing a neighbourhood engulfed by massive ...

Late on Monday, at 4:53pm local time, a powerful earthquake hit Japan. Reports vary, but the magnitude was somewhere between 7.4 and 7.7 on the Richter scale. It shook buildings, tore up roads, caused ...

In 2011, Japan suffered one of the worst environmental disasters in modern history. A magnitude 9.0 struck under the Pacific Ocean, 72 km east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region of Japan.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck northern Japan on April 20, Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, issuing a tsunami warning for waves up to three metres (10 feet). The quake, which hit at 4:53 ...