He scrambled for cover inside the city hall in Rikuzentakata, a fishing village along Japan’s mountainous northeast coast. Murakami, a city official, had never felt an earthquake so strong.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency withdrew a tsunami advisory after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of southwest Japan. The quake struck shortly after 9:19 p.m. local time (7:19 a ...

New episodes return on January 13th. A seismologist has warned that New Zealand needs to be prepared for the potential of a massive earthquake, even if there’s no way to know when that may happen.

In 2004, a 9.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, triggering a tsunami and series of tidal waves that became one of worst natural disasters in recorded history. Heat suspend ...

A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which killed more than 200,000 people. The Prime Minister was among those paying tribute, saying his ...

The report said that if an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude or more hit the possible hypocenter of a megaquake that could strike either of the trenches or an area close by, the Japan Meteorological ...

On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest fault length of any recorded earthquake.