2011 Earthquake News Today

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The East Coast trembled Friday morning as a 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck Whitehouse Station, N.J. The rumbles may have reached as far down as D.C., provoking memories of the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook the city in 2011. Data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows that Friday’s earthquake, which struck […]

A tsunami struck the Japanese plant in 2011, leading to the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Since the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku on March 11, 2011, the majority of post offices forced to close in the area have now resumed operations, thanks to the resolve of local delivery workers and their ambition to "never stop" providing mail services.

Megaquakes are likely attracted to the massive underground rock in southern Japan. Megaquakes or large earthquakes are seemingly pulled to the underground mountain-sized igneous rock, known as Kumano Pluton, in southern Japan, according to a new geological study.

The number of people who committed suicide associated with the 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan totaled 246 in the 11 years to January 2022, government data showed.

The U.S. militarys disaster relief mission following the massive earthquake-tsunami in Japan 10 years ago proved the value of the bilateral alliance and left a legacy of deep friendship, a then Navy commander involved in the operation said in a recent interview.

Sumo ring offering respite to Tohoku victims a decade after disaster Shinji Sato is a Japanese fourth-grader born the week before the disastrous magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck Japans east coast in March of 2011. Carried out of the hospital shortly before the tsunami swallowed up his coastal town of Yamada in Iwate Prefecture on March 11, Sato grew up strong and healthy in a community that benefited in its recovery from a group of sumo wrestlers who charged forward to provide aid. Y...

High school students want to hand down 2011 disaster experience Around 90 percent of high school students at six schools in northeastern Japan said they wanted their experiences from the March 11, 2011, quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster to be handed down to future generations in the hope lessons can be learned, a Kyodo News survey found Tuesday. In the survey that was distributed to 210 students, 89 percent, or 187 students, said they would generally like to hand down their memories to those ...