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

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

“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 magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the ...

Fire-prone communities are one of the biggest shared vulnerabilities in Japan and California. A similar-sized earthquake last year in Taiwan starkly points out the problem. On April 3, 2024 ...

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.