Japanese weather officials say it will be hotter than usual across the country from May to July. Our site uses cookies and ...

The government on April 23 started 2025 operations of both its ordinary and special heatstroke alert systems to warn the ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck Nagano Prefecture in central Japan on Friday, with no tsunami ...

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 ...

The ordinary alert system, operated by the Environment Ministry and the Japan Meteorological Agency, divides the country into ...

according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The release of the Japanese megaquake report comes after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake hit Myanmar on Friday, causing tens of thousands of deaths ...

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

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5 struck Japan''s Nagano Prefecture on Friday night, with no tsunami threat, ...

Earlier in August 2024, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued its first advisory of a megaquake along the Nankai Trough, which is a 900-km undersea fault that runs from Kyushu to Shizuoka.

Tremors of the first earthquake were felt in the district headquarters and Bhatwadi tehsil, with its epicentre near Tiloth (Representative file photo) The Japan Meteorological Agency said that the ...