A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2025 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event, but triggered by a mineralogical shift in Earth’s mantle.

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Japan's plans to transform the remote uninhabited island of Mageshima into a strategic military hub have hit a wall On a ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling network of trains, subways, and buses, often considered the best in the ...

Japan's century-old Mingei, or folk art, movement celebrates the everyday work of anonymous artists. It stands in contrast to both fine arts and industrially mass-produced goods. And it's having a yet ...

More than 5,400 people died in Japan over the past 30 years due to severe stress and exhaustion caused by evacuation ...

There are roughly two dozen or so volcanoes in a state of “unrest” or erupting somewhere on the planet. 2025 has been no ...

MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Surigao del Norte on Thursday afternoon, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

The Philippine Sea tectonic plate is slowly sliding beneath Japan's continental plate, where friction builds up until it is released in the form of powerful earthquakes. The region has experienced ...