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

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 ...

Seismic symphonies of minor earthquakes may affect grand movements on major faults.

Japan says China will resume Japanese seafood imports it banned in 2023 over worries about Japan’s discharge of treated but ...

Despite officials urging calm, airline data reflects the superstitious tendencies of travelers. ForwardKeys data analyzed by ...

On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0 ... a lot of that water washed into the Pacific resulting in the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history.

Japan has warned the next "big one ... in the last version of the report from a decade ago. The biggest killer would be a combined earthquake and tsunami, with the disaster planners estimating ...

Japan lies along the circum-Pacific seismic belt, better known as the "Ring of Fire," located along the outer edges of the Pacific Ocean, where about 81 percent of the largest earthquakes in the ...

They also caused significant damage in Hawaii. Japan’s biggest earthquake hit the country on March 11, 2011. The underwater quake hit around 80 miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan’s biggest ...

The Great Tohoku Earthquake struck Japan on March 11 ... The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5. off the coast ...

According to Japan's Earthquake Research Committee ... along the south of Japan's biggest island of Honshu. It’s a subduction zone located where the Philippine Sea Plate is being subducted ...