The United States and Japan concluded a weeklong disaster-response exercise that simulated a magnitude 7 earthquake, the ...

Earthquake in Japan: a 3D model reveals how hidden faults raised the ground by up to 5 meters on the Noto Peninsula.

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic ...

A new study corrects the recorded depth of an earthquake in Japan, revealing that it was not the deepest in history.

Japan’s skyscrapers are built to withstand some of the strongest earthquakes in the world, thanks to innovative engineering and seismic design. Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is no ...

Japan has taken a bold step to calm public concerns over radioactive waste by transporting bags of mildly radioactive soil ...

Fears of an earthquake on or around July 5 originated from a manga graphic novel by Ryo Tatsuki, whom some claim to have ...

Google and UC Berkeley have turned Android smartphones into lifesaving earthquake detectors, now operating in 98 countries ...

That evening came to mind recently as I read a New Yorker article by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, which ...

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii has notified Japan's Meteorological Agency that an earthquake with an estimated ...

A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning. The quake’s ...

Japan's weather agency said Wednesday that data from an offshore tsunami gauge in the Pacific Ocean is currently unavailable, ...