In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

TOKYO — The head of Japan’s meteorological agency on Friday dismissed widespread rumors of a major earthquake in Japan this summer as unscientific and a “hoax,” urging people not to worry ...

Planet Earth will spin a little faster on three separate days this summer, starting on July 9. This will technically result ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

A once-obscure manga called Watashi ga Mita Mirai (translated as The Future I Saw) by Ryo Tatsuki allegedly predicted the ...

TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan's meteorological agency on Friday dismissed widespread rumors of a major earthquake in Japan this summer as unscientific and a “hoax," urging people not to worry ...

When a disaster strikes, there are big differences in how well people are able to respond and recover -- and older adults in rural areas are especially vulnerable.

The cause of this acceleration is not explained," Leonid Zotov, expert on Earth rotation, explained. "Ocean and atmospheric ...

According to Japan Forward, Tatsuki previously drew attention for allegedly foreseeing the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake in an earlier work published in 1996, though such claims remain speculative.

In the coming weeks, Earth is expected to rotate slightly faster than usual, causing several days to be marginally shorter.