Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

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 ...

Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?

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

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean ...

The new threat level issued by Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee is similar to estimates published in the journal ...

A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still ...

He wears a black bodysuit and a white mask, speaks in an electronically altered squeaky voice and makes creepiness his ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Workers in southwestern Japan on Tuesday worked to clear a road blocked by a small landslide and repair ...

Japan issued a tsunami advisory on Monday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the southwest of the country. The public warnings to stay away from coastal areas were later lifted. The agency ...

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of rattled southwestern Japan, the country's meteorological agency said Monday. The authorities have issued tsunami warnings in the wake of the earthquake.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake, measuring a lower 5 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale, struck southwestern Japan at 9:19 p.m. on Monday evening, according to the Meteorological Agency. The quake ...