People across Japan bowed their heads and prayed on March 11 for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan 14 years ago. Prime Minister Shigeru ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck Nagano Prefecture in central Japan on Friday, with no tsunami warning issued, according to the weather agency. No severe ...

Major tsunami warning (expected height over 3 meters): This warning was issued during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Wooden structures will be completely destroyed and washed away.

This has been said by the International Tsunami Information Center and the U.S. Geological Survey. This region of the Ring of Fire runs through Japan, making it a tsunami and earthquake-prone region.

at the time considered the worst natural disaster ever to strike quake-prone Japan. The initial jolt was followed a few minutes later by a 40-foot-high tsunami. A series of towering waves swept ...