TOKYO (Reuters) -An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hit southwestern Japan on Thursday, triggering tsunami advisories, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, but there were no immediate signs ...

Based on the experience, the agency plans to provide disaster response teams with smaller rescue vehicles capable of ...

Social media users have shared a photo collage of damaged buildings and roads from previous earthquakes in Japan, falsely ...

Old footage from the Japanese government in 2016 simulating the potential effects of a powerful earthquake has been misrepresented online as showing the tremor that shook the country's south in August ...

A powerful earthquake struck off Japan southern on Thursday, causing mostly minor injuries but raising the level of concern ...

The ribbon-like oarfish hovers in the water, creates a bioluminescent glow and is said to warn of an upcoming earthquake.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake has raised the risk of an even larger temblor on the Nankai Trough, an underwater subduction zone.

An EERIE photo shows a “ghost” lurking in a rural Japanese school that was abandoned following the tragic 2011 Fukushima ...

The 7.5- magnitude earthquake beneath Japan's Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, occurred when a 'dual-initiation mechanism' applied enough energy from two different locations to break through a fault ...

A major earthquake struck off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, on August 8. Although the industrial impact was ...

This history of Japanese earthquake prediction provides a compelling account of how disaster policies are made and unmade. It ...