Japan plans to use state funds to help residents of areas at high risk of fire obtain earthquake-sensitive breakers to prevent blazes caused by short circuits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/28/japan/society/quake-sensitive-breakers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #earthquakes #disasterpreparedness #firefighters

The Japanese government has corrected the number of potential advance evacuees in the event of an alert for a possible megaquake in the Nankai Trough off the country's coast to about 516,000, from 520,000 initially. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/japan/japan-corrects-number-of-potential-megaquake-evacuees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nankaitrough #earthquakes #oita #disasterpreparedness

More than 520,000 people in Japan would be urged to evacuate for a week if an alert is issued for a possible megaquake in the Nankai Trough off the country's Pacific coast, a government survey showed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/megaquake-520000-evacuate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nankaitrough #earthquakes

A massive earthquake off Russia’s eastern coast triggered Pacific-wide tsunami warnings, minimal damage, and renewed warnings that Japan and the region remain dangerously underprepared for the next major disaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/08/01/japans-vulnerability-to-natural-disaster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #earthquakes #tsunami #russia #nankaitrough

Japan's tsunami advisory for coastal areas between Tokyo Bay and Okinawa has been lifted, with the exception of some locations, though the measure remains in place between Hokkaido and Chiba Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/japan/tsunami-advisory-partially-lifted/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #earthquakes #tsunami #russia #disasters

After a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, tsunami centers along the Pacific coastline warned of the potential for colossal waves, but they never transpired. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/31/earth-science/powerful-earthquake-weak-tsunami/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #earthscience #tsunami #oceans #earthquakes #kamchatka

A new radar satellite, successfully launched Wednesday, will track tiny shifts across almost all of Earth’s land and ice regions, measuring changes as slight as a centimeter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/31/earth-science/earth-surface-new-satellite/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #earthscience #nasa #earthquakes #tsunami #satellites

Coastal regions from Chile to the western U.S. were on edge after a powerful earthquake in Russia’s Far East triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/asia-pacific/tsunami-chile-us-russia-quake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #tsunami #earthquakes #russia #japan #us #hawaii #peru #chile #pacificocean

The Tokyo District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings on Wednesday to pay about ¥100 million ($675,000) in damages over the 2011 accident at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/crime-legal/tepco-ordered-to-pay-damages-nuclear-disaster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukushimano1 #311 #earthquakes #tsunami #futaba #fukushima #japanesecourts

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's sparsely populated Far East on Wednesday, causing tsunami up to 4 meters across the Pacific and sparking evacuations as far away as Hawaii. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/asia-pacific/quake-russia-tsunami/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #tsunami #earthquakes #russia

The Nuclear Regulation Authority approved a safety screening report that the No. 3 reactor at the Tomari nuclear power plant in Hokkaido meets Japan's safety standards. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/hokkaido-nuclear-reactor-passes-safety-screening/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hokkaido #tomari #nuclearenergy #earthquakes #tsunami

The city of Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture is said to have been the first place on Japan's main island of Honshu to suffer a naval bombardment during World War II. Mutsuko Sano, 94, clearly heard the earth rumbling. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/28/japan/history/1945-naval-bombardment-kamaishi-iwate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #wwii #iwate #kamaishi #tsunami #earthquakes

Japan has held the first meeting of its panel tasked with reviewing guidelines on how companies and local governments should respond to emergency information on a possible earthquake in the Nankai Trough. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/25/japan/nankai-trough-quake-info-guidelines-review/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nankaitrough #earthquakes #localgovernment

In the face of rural decline, Yukio Iokibe’s documentary is a quiet tribute to how democracy endures — through personal conviction and human connection. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/20/film/noto-democracy-documentary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #documentary #yukioiokibe #ishikawa #earthquakes #notopeninsula #depopulation

Four Noto Peninsula assemblies sent a joint letter of protest to LDP lawmaker Yosuke Tsuruho demanding his resignation for saying "it was lucky that the earthquake occurred in Noto." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/12/japan/ldp-lawmaker-noto-protest-letter/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #notopeninsula #ishikawaearthquake #earthquakes #gaffes #ldp #wakayama

Nearly half of respondents living in the earthquake-hit Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture believe that a digital divide was evident right after the January 2024 disaster, a survey has shown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/11/japan/noto-digital-divide/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #notopeninsula #ishikawa #surveys #earthquakes #internet #disasterpreparedness