The tsunami warning affected two provinces and sparked fears over the safety of the two nuclear power plants in the area.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Kyushu region in Japan on Monday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The ...

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan, prompting tsunami warnings for Miyazaki and Kochi Prefectures. The ...

Southern Japan was hit by a strong earthquake on Monday that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year.

Tsunami warnings followed the earthquake which rattled the southwest of the country on Monday. View on euronews ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan late on Monday, causing two small tsunamis in the area but no damage ...

“But we don’t get big ones like in Japan because we’re not on the edge of the plates like they are.” But The Dogger Bank earthquake of 1931 is still the strongest ever recorded in the UK ...

They also caused significant damage in Hawaii. 4. Japan 2011: Magnitude 9.0 Japan’s biggest earthquake hit the country on March 11, 2011. The underwater quake hit around 80 miles off the coast of ...

(Beneath Japan alone, three plates are converging.) Then there’s the big earthquake belt of Eurasia running from the Mediterranean through the Middle East to China where the continent is being ...

Having just learned about tsunamis in school, she was one of a few people to recognise the warning signs of the devastating wave that struck moments later on Boxing Day, 2004. The Indian Ocean tsunami ...

They also caused significant damage in Hawaii. Japan’s biggest earthquake hit the country on March 11, 2011. The underwater quake hit around 80 miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan’s biggest island.

There are fears that sooner or later, the entire Pacific coast of northern California, Oregon and Washington is due to suffer ...