An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck off the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Fukushima on Friday, ...

TOKYO, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck off the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Fukushima on Friday, the country's weather agency said.

A court in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan has rejected a lawsuit demanding a local nuclear power plant stop operations.

Zero intensity is detected by seismometers but not perceptible to people. The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, which spawned the giant tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear ...

Delhi earthquake tremors felt severe even though the intensity was only 4 on the Richter scale because the epicentre of today's earthquake was New Delhi. The epicentre of the quake was in the ...

Experts noted that buildings, particularly high-rises, sway more due to their design, increasing the perceived intensity of shaking. Epicentre within Delhi: Since the earthquake originated beneath ...

The UN nuclear watchdog chief visited Japan's stricken Fukushima plant on Wednesday, the day after Tokyo approved an energy ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is monitoring Japan's efforts to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi plant after a 2011 earthquake-triggered tsunami killed 18,000 people and set off ...

We heard the rumbling and a loud boom before feeling the earthquake as the P wave hit us first - and in large intensity. The underlying reason was the crumbling tectonic plates below our feet ...

However, the quake itself was not of a high-intensity magnitude. An earthquake of 4.0-magnitude struck the national capital today, strong tremors of which were felt in its adjoining areas.