A professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Kobe University Hospital, KOTANI ...

Having a birthday in mid-January is memorable for the disasters that seem to regularly take place, now and historically. On ...

A minor earthquake measuring 2.4 in magnitude occurred near the Missouri-Illinois border on Saturday evening, Feb. 1, 2025.

AWAJI, Hyogo Prefecture--After nearly a quarter-century, a museum here dedicated to passing down the lessons from the Great Hanshin Earthquake is struggling with falling visitor numbers ...

The “Open Seminar” is a forum for dialogue between researchers and citizens on themes such as disaster prevention and recovery. Organized once a month by the Kobe University Research Center for Urban ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, according to the U.S ...

Earthquake Today: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan near the city of Chiayi, according to the island's weather bureau. Taiwan's Tainan Science Park, home to major tech companies ...

16, 2025, the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people. Grammy 2025: FULL winners' list! Number of body ...

Residents and victims' families observed a moment of silence at 5.46am, the exact time the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe and its vicinity in Hyogo Prefecture on Jan 17, 1995, leaving 6,434 ...

More than 5,400 people died in Japan over the past 30 years due to severe stress and exhaustion caused by evacuation following earthquakes and other natural disasters, Kyodo News reported. At least 5, ...

17, 1995, following a massive earthquake earlier that morning, in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter. (Mainichi) Japan on Jan. 17 marked 30 years since the Great Hanshin ...