On January 1, the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture experienced a magnitude seven earthquake that destroyed homes and caused over 50,000 people to be evacuated. Beyond the evident devastation and ...

I’ve lived in California nearly all my life, and I’ve never purchased an earthquake survival kit, nor have I done much else to prepare for the Big One. My lack of preparedness isn’t unusual ...

Japan was both impressively prepared and shockingly unprepared. The country was indeed ready for a major earthquake, even a massive not once-in-a-century but once-in-a-millennium monster.

Earthquakes can happen at any time, so for those in earthquake-prone areas, preparedness should be maintained on an ongoing basis. A readily-accessible earthquake survival kit is essential, but so ...

When the big one hits, what will you do? Some advice from Japan on earthquake survival June 1, 2023 (Mainichi Japan) Japanese version ...

If you're in California, or a different zone that's prone to earthquakes, experts have a few suggestions for what to put in your earthquake survival kit.

Daniel Aldrich, Purdue University associate professor of political science, has studied evacuation, disaster recovery and community rebuilding following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in ...

Still, structural engineers say that Japan was actually ready for the disaster. KRISTA LOOZA: Japan has a lot of earthquakes. FADEL: That's Krista Looza, a structural engineer based in California.

Rescuers in the Noto peninsula of Japan - where a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit on New Year's Day - are racing against time in their search for survivors, as a critical three-day survival window ...