Now, a University of Michigan study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Yihe Huang, lead author ...

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along fault lines between ...

The Uemachi fault zone stretches about 42 kilometers between ... The agency says the last time a 6-minus quake hit Japan was in December 2016. It rocked northern Ibaraki Prefecture and injured ...

Japan intensified its scientific efforts to ... that claimed around 6,400 lives was triggered by active faults in a fault zone long recognized by experts to exist in the area.