What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a theory.

Land topography is usually formed gradually over long periods of time, but sometimes a single event can dramatically change things. On New Year's Day in 2024, a devastating earthquake in the Noto ...

Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?

KOBE (Kyodo) -- The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that killed over 6,400 people, with many hoping to keep alive ...

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake took place on January 17, 1995, devastating Kobe and the surrounding area. Ahead of its thirtieth anniversary, the Japanese Red Cross Society surveyed 1,200 ...

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake which occurred on January 17, 1995, was the first quake in Japan to register an intensity of 7 on the Japanese seismic scale, resulting in 6,434 deaths and ...

Dashcam footage of the earthquake in Japan on New Year’s Day 2024 has been mislabeled online as showing the magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Tibet on Jan. 7, 2025, that killed 126 people and damaged ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan — U.S. Army aviators and Japanese troops are rehearsing their disaster response techniques, a year after they flew real-world missions for victims of a deadly earthquake on ...

An "unusually large" ice volcano in Iceland could be about to blow after more than 130 earthquakes hit the region in a five-hour period, experts say. The earthquake swarm began in the northwestern ...

No problems were detected at the various monitoring posts for nuclear plants in the area. Japan is frequently hit by earthquakes due to its location along the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and ...

Rikuzentakata, Japan. March 11, 2011. (Courtesy of Fumiaki Konno) The Tohoku earthquake — the strongest ... I felt at the time,” Sasaki said in 2021. “I only have a sense of gratitude ...