This map shows how parts of Japan could be impacted by a tsunami ... 10 meters could also hit a wide area along the Pacific coast from the Kanto region to the Kyushu region.

A strong, 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Japan on Monday ... U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that ...

Using data from the Digital Japan Basic Maps, which are the basis for 1:25,000 scale topographic maps, a count was conducted of naturally formed islands with a coastline of 100 meters or more in ...

Cartographer Ino Tadataka (1745-1818) was 55 years old when he set out on his first surveying trip in 1800 to chart the coast of Hokkaido ... of his completed map of Japan. Nevertheless, I ...

TOKYO — Japan issued its first warning Thursday about the possibility of a long-feared "megaquake" after a powerful 7.1-magnitude temblor struck off its southern coast, sparking a tsunami ...

their imperial yellow shimmer filled the windows as my friend and I rattled along this once-moribund coastline. On 11 March 2011, communities along the north-eastern seaboard of Japan's biggest ...

The epicenter was located just a dozen miles from the shore. LONDON -- A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 has rocked the coast of southern Japan, according to the U.S ...