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

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

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

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors in recent weeks.

Japan is highly prone to devastating earthquakes, and the country has readily taken steps to avert the threat posed to its ...

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

Japan is facing a seismic crisis. Over 1,700 earthquakes have rocked the Tokara Islands, triggering evacuations and raising ...

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 magnitude of 7.2 has struck off the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic cables linking 186 observatories across the ocean floor. It’s designed to ...

Martin Wieland and Trevor Matuschka, explain why the earthquake safety of dams is a key prerequisite for sustainable dams ...

More than 2,000 earthquakes that can be felt by humans have recently struck around a southwestern Japanese island chain.