A research institute has released a 3-D geological map showing the underground structure of Tokyo's 23 wards designed to help residents think about weak areas and better prepare for earthquakes.

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

NHK's archives house an extensive collection of photographs and videos of central Tokyo taken soon after the Great Kanto Earthquake that ... have been pinned on a map. Click the URL below to ...

The map shows the probability of a major quake ... Aitaro Kato, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute, has found that aftershocks have concentrated ...

For Tokyo, the possibility was put ... The probability maps are based on the projected chances of a big earthquake hitting as well as how much shaking such a temblor would entail.

On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The ...