From Osaka to Fukuoka, uncover the best cities to visit in Japan besides Tokyo, offering scenic beauty, authentic travel ...

At just over two miles, if fully completed, the Strait of Messina Bridge would become the largest suspension bridge in the ...

Insured natural catastrophe losses in 2025 will be about the same level as last year. Insured natural catastrophe losses may ...

residents of Kobe in western Japan also observed a moment of silence. The port city was the center of the devastation caused by the Great Hanshin Earthquake of Jan. 17, 1995.

KOBE--Residents started ... the park by 7 a.m. The earthquake struck at 5:46 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1995, the first to occur directly beneath a large city in post-war Japan. The epicenter of the ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ... data from the Meteorological Agency going back to 1923 shows: the Kobe quake in 1995; the 2004 Chuetsu earthquake that killed 46 and derailed ...

which establishes Japan Standard Time. The clock is mounted near the top of the 54-meter-tall tower and has a diameter of 6.2 meters. The magnitude-7.3 earthquake leveled much of Kobe and ...

Even though predicting an impending earthquake (EQ) with lead time of about a week or ... some other AMeDAS of stations near the EQ epicenter in the western part of Japan: Kobe (34˚41'N, 135˚12'E), ...

Hidden beneath the waters surrounding Japan’s Yonaguni island are the towering ruins of a 10,000-year-old city built by a ...