Top Stories - Earthquake

Less than 48 hours after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked much of Japan, a 6.4 magnitude quake did the same. The second one was centered significantly north of the first. Throw in a typhoon, and nature is certainly making herself felt these days.

Seismologists say the chances of a major earthquake striking at the heart of Japan's capital city within the next few decades are 70 per cent and they say if it happens, thousands will die.

The epicenter of the 1933 Sanriku earthquake was located offshore, 290 kilometres (180 mi) east of the city of Kamaishi, Iwate. The initial shock occurred on at 0230 AM on March 2, 1933. The earthquake measured 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale [1] and was in approximately the same location as the 1896 Sanriku earthquake.

This May, a massive earthquake rocked Sichuan Province in China. Reaching a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale, it claimed the lives of 400,000 people. Half a year later, though the destruction seems to have lost its newsworthiness, the reconstruction is still very much a reality. However, it doesn’t have to be hopeless! How about a temporary shelter made of paper?

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The Central Disaster Management Council says that changes in the earth's crust caused by a major fault-zone motion could cause coastal land along a fault zone in Osaka to sink.