A study found that tectonic plates beneath the Chishima Trench are not slipping past each other but appear to be locked ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

Tsunami Preparedness Week falls on March 22 and local experts advise those who live near coastal areas to take training ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

JAKARTA, March 14 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude struck off Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province on Friday evening, according to the country's Meteorology, Climatology, and ...

People across Japan bowed their heads and prayed on March 11 for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami ...

The advice given when there’s a long and strong earthquake is to “get gone” because of the potential tsunami risk, but would ...

The risk of tourism-related deaths there was considered too high to be acceptable to New Zealand society. This is also clear ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on Richter Scale jolted Myanmar on Sunday, a statement by the National Centre for Seismology ...

As the sun rose on the 14th anniversary of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, 28,000 people, with most from Fukushima ...

Drought in the mountainous areas of central and northeastern Japan is contributing to the spread of forest fires on a scale ...

A 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck Kon Plong district in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum at noon on March 6, causing ...