Geologists don't have a crystal ball that can foresee future earthquakes, but seismic specialists in the Japanese government ...

Dashcam footage of the earthquake in Japan on New Year’s Day 2024 has been mislabeled online as showing the magnitude 6.8 ...

Japan is facing the risk of a possible "megaquake" in the near future, following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that occurred off ...

“However, it is important to keep in mind that an earthquake could occur at any ... killing nearly 470 people in Japan’s biggest jolt in more than a decade, many of them elderly residents ...

The country sees some 1,500 earthquakes annually, although most are too mild to be felt. Japan saw its largest earthquake ever recorded in 2011, a magnitude-9.1 quake that struck the Tohoku region ...

The term refers to a wide area that is thought to be occasionally hit by major earthquakes, such as the one that killed more than 1,300 people in Japan in 1946. One of the largest ever earthquakes ...

U.S. Army aviators and Japanese troops are participating in Nankai Rescue, a U.S.-Japan disaster drill that kicked off Monday ...

It was the largest earthquake that the country has seen since the deadly 2011 quake that hit North East Japan. Sadly, the death toll reached more than 230. Japan is prone to earthquakes due to the ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan late on Monday ... killing nearly 470 people in Japan’s biggest jolt in ...