Two strong earthquakes struck Japan Tuesday at magnitudes of 5.4 and 4.7, according to data from the United States Geological ...

Tokyo, one of the world's most densely populated megacities, sits on a highly active seismic zone where the threat of major earthquakes is ever-present. One of the most destructive aspects of seismic ...

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked parts of Japan on Thursday, prompting officials to issue a Tsunami Advisory that forced residents to flee to higher ground for safety, and scientists are now ...

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 hit southern Japan late on Wednesday, said the Japan Meteorological Agency, without issuing a tsunami warning. The ...

A powerful earthquake struck off southern Japan on Thursday, causing mostly minor injuries but raising the level of concern over possible major quakes stemming from an undersea trough east of the ...

A house lies in the sea off a village near the Onagawa nuclear power plant on March 20, 2011, nine days after the deadly earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern coast of Japan's main island ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Japan's Kyushu region on Tuesday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

TOKYO (AP) — Earthquakes early Monday again struck Japan's north-central region of Ishikawa, still recovering from the destruction left by a powerful quake on Jan. 1, but the latest shaking caused no ...

This story has been corrected. YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The “room” attached to the back of a Tokyo Fire Department truck began to shake violently as the occupants crouched beneath a flimsy table at ...