The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant upgrades to the plan to safeguard the public in the event of a major ...

Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...

Manga artist Ryo Tatsuki wrote in her 2021 work ‘The Future I Saw’ about a crack forming beneath the sea between Japan and ...

A series of earthquakes near Japan’s remote Tokara Islands over the past two weeks, along with a major eruption from a ...

A REMOTE island chain has been rocked by more than 900 terrifying earthquakes in two weeks – forcing its residents to stay up ...

While the "Doomsday Quake" prophecy turned out to be unfounded, it serves as a reminder of Japan's ongoing vulnerability to ...

Japanese authorities urged the 89 residents of a small southern island to evacuate after a strong earthquake on Thursday, the ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 struck the Andaman Sea early Sunday morning, according to the National Centre for Seismology ...