A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing little damage but possibly portending more seismic activity in the near future ...

Another sinkhole has since opened up nearby, and residents within a 650-foot radius had been evacuated, a spokesman said.

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the central Philippines on Thursday, damaging buildings and a road near its epicentre, ...

Ichiro Suzuki's career was full of hitting streaks, All-Star Games and Gold Glove awards. But all that paled compared to ...

Japan will introduce smaller emergency vehicles to reach remote disaster-hit areas after relief teams were unable to swiftly enter areas hit by a major earthquake in the Noto Peninsula last year, the ...

The expert mentioned poor environments at evacuation centers as one of the problems persisting since the Great Hanshin ...

The Kobelco Kobe Steelers marked the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin earthquake in appropriate fashion in Japan Rugby League ...

More than 5,400 people died in Japan over the past 30 years due to severe stress and exhaustion caused by evacuation following earthquakes and other natural disasters, according to a recent tally by ...

Sasaki's home town of Rikuzentakata was virtually wiped off the map when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake sent huge waves ...

Hyogo Prefecture is also calling on the central government to pick Kansai as the base of a new disaster relief agency ...

Japan raises probability of megaquake to over 80% in next 30 years - Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent ...