A powerful 7.4 earthquake has struck off the coast of Russia, with the tremor felt in Alaska, Japan, and Hawaii, prompting ...

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

With elections coming in Japan, the threat of U.S. tariffs is forcing its prime minister to start talking tougher, and is getting people to rethink long-held assumptions about relations with the U.S.

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Japan's susceptibility to seismic activity along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" reignites concerns over earthquake prediction.

TOKYO - Japanese authorities urged the 89 residents of a small southern island to evacuate after a strong earthquake on July 3, the latest of more than 1,000 recent jolts to hit the area ...

Residents living along a sparsely populated string of islands in Japan have become increasingly weary, after hundreds of earthquakes in the span of a couple weeks have made many afraid to go to ...

Just two days before the exact date (July 5, 2025) that manga artist Ryo Tatsuki predicted in her cult novel The Future I Saw, Japan was rattled by a 5.5-magnitude earthquake on Thursday. The quake’s ...

The vast majority of earthquakes that hit Japan are mild, but there are some that cause great ... Worst-case scenarios predict it could leave more than 300,000 dead. Earlier this week, the government ...

More than 470 consecutive earthquakes have struck since Saturday in a remote island cluster in southern Japan, the National Weather Service said today, urging residents to be vigilant.

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 ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan — U.S. Army aviators and Japanese troops are rehearsing their disaster response techniques, a year after they flew real-world missions for victims of a deadly earthquake on ...