Large quakes produce shaking at a variety of frequencies. Some waves can travel hundreds of miles, and are amplified by local geological conditions.

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1 Graduate School of Environmental and Information Studies, Tokyo City University, Yokohama, Japan 2 Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur, Nepal Global warming has caused an ...

Tsunekichi Okawa was a police officer credited with sheltering ethnic Koreans from mob madness in Yokohama following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake ... victims held in Tokyo on Sept.

Tokyo-area residents who lost electricity after the March 16 earthquake in the northern Tohoku region were essentially forced to sacrifice their comfort for the greater good. The temporary power ...

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To simulate the double-direction earthquake effect accurately and effectively and put the joint area into the worst condition, this test adopted a system where the low-frequency cyclic load was ...