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Seabed survey in the earthquake area in Japan
According to AFP, on March 8, scientists deployed a seabed research program off Japan, where a strong earthquake struck the tsunami last year, to observe the disturbance…
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Japan still faces the risk of super-earthquakes
A year after the tsunami earthquake, Japanese people in Tokyo still have to live in a sense of anxiety when scientists in the country recently issued a warning about the…
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The strange effects of Japanese earthquakes
Japan's terrifying earthquake, followed by a tsunami on March 11, 2011 caused effects on both the globe, from the surface to the atmosphere, changing the gravitational p…
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Earthquake shook Japan, causing tsunami warnings
A series of earthquakes rocked the capital of Tokyo and northeastern Japan on the evening of March 14 leading to a tsunami warning several places, but no damage or casua…
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Japanese tsunami garbage to Hawaii
The waves of tsunami swept after the double disaster in northeastern Japan last year are very close to the Hawaiian Islands, and will reach the west coast of the United…
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Tokyo may experience massive earthquakes in the coming years
The Japanese capital of Tokyo and the suburbs of this city are forecast to be more likely to experience major earthquakes in the next few years.
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Detection of radiation 650km from the Japanese coast
Radioactivity from the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant was discovered about 650 km away from the Japanese coast, in the Pacific Ocean, with a radiation index 1,0…
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Japan uses agricultural land for renewable energy
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture-Forestry-Fisheries (MAFF) has just finalized a bill aimed at simplifying procedures for concentrating abandoned agricultural land to serv…
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Earthquake shook Japan
A strong earthquake just rocked eastern Japan, but did not affect the Fukushima I nuclear plant, without tsunami warnings.
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Japan drill to prepare to exploit gas in the seabed
On February 15, Japan National Petroleum and Petroleum Group (JOGMEC) began drilling for the trial operation of Methane Hydrate in Pacific waters off Aichi Prefecture, C…
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Japan faces heavy snowfall and snow storms
On February 2, the Japan Meteorological Agency warned that heavy snowfall and blizzards will last another two days in many locations along the coast of Japan while some…
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Japan is still searching for tsunami victims
Under the gloomy winter sky, a Japanese Coast Guard ship day after day turned patiently on the beach full of debris and rubbish left by the tsunami.
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Japan found concrete to build houses contaminated with radiation
Fukushima prefectural authorities in northeastern Japan said on January 19 that high levels of radiation were found around a protective dike in the province of Motomiya.
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IAEA assesses the level of nuclear safety in Japan
More than 10 months after the earthquake - tsunami caused a nuclear crisis at Japan's Fukushima power plant, on January 23, a group of experts from the International Ato…
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Tokyo will suffer an additional big earthquake
According to TNHK Radio Station, Japanese scientists predict that the 2011 earthquake in northeastern Tokyo increases the likelihood that the city will experience anothe…