The centuries-old Mercator projection is a notoriously inaccurate world map. For one thing, Greenland isn’t the massive land mass as shown on the map. But ...

An earthquake struck the Noto peninsula at around 4:10 p.m., local time, and had a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the ...

Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of the 2016 Good Design Grand Award, one of the most prestigious design awards in Japan.It preserves the ...

The 2016 winner of Japan’s prestigious Good Design, designers figured out how to translate our spherical world into a rectangular box. Hajime Narukawa, a Tokyo-based architect and artist, broke the ...

Map: 6.8-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Japan By William B. Davis , Madison Dong , Judson Jones , John Keefe and Bea Malsky Updated Jan. 14, 2025 at 12:34 p.m. E.T.