Measures include fortifying homes and fire safety installations, as well as building more embankments and emergency shelters ...

A prediction by a Japanese manga artist has reignited fears of a natural disaster hitting the country this summer.

Japan will set a goal of reducing a March estimate of up to 298,000 deaths from a potential megaquake occurring in the Nankai ...

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History has a way of repeating itself. But unlike science, built on general principles and testable theories about the ...

SOUTHEAST MEADE COUNTY, S.D. – West River South Dakota has been hit with its second earthquake since March. On Saturday at 9:30pm local time, a magnitude 2.6 earthquake was detected approximately 10 ...

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake was recorded in Colombia on Sunday about 72 miles east of Bogota, according to the Servicio ...

A law allowing nuclear reactors to operate beyond 60 years took effect in Japan on Friday. This happened as the government ...

A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he ...

A Japanese court has ruled former executives at the utility managing the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...