Chubu Electric Power Co. said the quake did not affect the operation of a nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture. Both earthquakes logged lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 ...

an agency official said the observed tectonic shifts were of a different type than those expected to occur in the Tokai earthquake, and that the Shizuoka Prefecture quake was on a much smaller ...

A strong earthquake jolted Shizuoka Prefecture shortly after 5am Tuesday morning, registering an intensity of lower 6 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7 in the cities of Izu, Yaizu, Makinohara and ...

The earthquake also forced the suspension of bullet train services and the shutdown of two nuclear reactors. Shizuoka Governor Heita Kawakatsu told public broadcaster NHK:"There have been no ...

It was 1983, a time when Shizuoka Prefecture was still abuzz over a research paper warning about the inevitable Tokai earthquake, or "the Big One." "One of the first things people in Hokkaido ...