In the aftermath of the devastating Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, collapsed buildings blocked rescue efforts and ...
Geologists don't have a crystal ball that can foresee future earthquakes, but seismic specialists in the Japanese government ...
Japan's government and experts have issued a warning about the increasing likelihood of a mega-earthquake striking the nation ...
A "megaquake" hitting Japan in the next 30 years could trigger 100-foot tsunamis and kill hundreds of thousands of people.
A magnitude-6.6 earthquake jolts Japan's Kyushu region, sparking fear of potential destruction and aftershocks.
A Japanese government committee on earthquake research has changed its estimate of the chance of a Nankai Trough megaquake in ...
The chance of a megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has increased to approximately 80 percent, ...
The probability that a Nankai Trough megaquake will occur in the next 30 years has risen to “around 80%,” according to new ...
Though Monday's temblor struck a similar area to one in August that sparked the first advisory, no such alert was issued.
Southern Japan was hit by a strong earthquake today that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year.
The Earthquake Research Committee said it has increased its estimate of the probability to between 75 and 82 percent from ...
The Nankai Trough, where the Philippine Sea Plate is slipping under the Eurasia Plate at the bottom of the sea off the southwest coast of Japan, produces massive earthquakes about every 100-150 years.