Sitting on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific "Ring of Fire", Japan is one of the world's most tectonically active countries. The archipelago, home to around ...

TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological ...

Sitting on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific “Ring of Fire", Japan is one of the world’s most tectonically active countries. The archipelago, home to around 125 ...

Citing Japanese state media, Reuters reported that the quake did not seem to impact either the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant in western Japan or the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima prefecture. The ...

Jan. 13 (UPI) --A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Miyazaki Prefecture Monday evening in Japan, initially setting off a tsunami warning before it was called off, officials said ...

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The death toll from a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in western China’s Tibet autonomous region continued to rise on Tuesday night, with at least 126 dead and scores more injured. The epicentre of the ...

At least 126 people have died and 188 were injured in the quake, which struck shortly after 9 a.m. at a depth of 6.2 miles in Dingri County, near one of Tibet’s most historic cities, in western ...

That quake was China's deadliest since 2014, when more than 600 people were killed in the south-western Yunnan province. In the December 2023 earthquake, sub-zero temperatures made the aid ...

The tremor, which Chinese authorities recorded as magnitude 6.8, hit Dingri County in Shigatse, a mountainous region in western China that borders Nepal. Shigatse, which is about 240 miles from ...

THE cut-off yield on Singapore’s latest six-month Treasury bill (T-bill) inched up to 3.05 per cent, based on auction results released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Thursday (Jan 2). This ...