The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant upgrades to the plan to safeguard the public in the event of a major earthquake off southern Japan and to respond in the event that disaster does ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has begun using the label "data not available" when tsunami observation systems are damaged ...

A powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Sunday, just 19 minutes after a 7.0 quake ...

Japan's weather agency said Friday that a malfunction in the ocean-floor observation system off the Pacific coast, installed ...

Japan lowers its tsunami warning but tells people not to go home after several earthquakes. Cracks are seen on the ground in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan on Monday following an earthquake.

Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert, issued following a series of major earthquakes, but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves could still come.

Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert, issued following a series of major earthquakes on Monday, but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves could still… ...

Japanese authorities have evacuated a small island village after the region was jolted by over 1,000 earthquakes in less than two weeks.

The tsunami left a scar on the land and on Japan's soul. Every day for the past year at 2:46 p.m., the time of the earthquake, Hiromi Miura goes to the place where the waves took her husband ...

Tsunamis, such as the one generated by the magnitude 8.9 earthquake today (March 11) in Japan, are often generated by massive temblors that rupture beneath the Earth’s surface underneath the ...