Sixty years after the world's first high-speed train launched, rail enthusiast Paul Carter rides the bullet train along ...

How big is the Pacific Ring of Fire? The Ring of Fire dominates the Pacific Ocean. It's a string of at least 450 active and dormant volcanoes that form a semi-circle, or horse shoe, around the ...

That high-speed line between Tokyo and Osaka – the Tokaido Shinkansen – became known by travellers as "The Golden Route", whisking passengers between two of ... of Hokkaido, Honshu and Kyushu.

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

MORTON, Wash. - An earthquake struck near Morton, Washington Wednesday morning. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake hit at around 7:52 a.m. north of Mount St.

However, from around the fall of 2020, it began to markedly move northward along Honshu, Japan’s main island, Miyama said. This is believed to be due to the westerly winds taking a more ...

An aerial view of Ishinomaki, Japan, a week after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ethan Johnson) (CN) --- A magnitude 9 ...

MORTON, Wash. - An earthquake struck near Morton, Washington Wednesday morning. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake hit at around 7:52 a.m. north of Mount St ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

The epicentre of the quake was in Afghanistan at a latitude of 36.49 degrees north and longitude of 71.27 degrees east, at a depth of 165 km, officials said. An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 on the ...

However, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS), the tremor took place at 4:19 am and Afghanistan was the origin of the earthquake at a depth of 165 km with latitude 36.49 ...

The Kansai Press Photographers Association announced the winners of this fiscal year's awards for distinguished press photos ...