Thirty years have passed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake devastated Kobe and wide areas around the port city.

SENDAI—An international conference on disaster preparedness will be held for the first time in three years and four months in this city that suffered damage in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and ...

Vanuatu experienced yet another harrowing reminder of its vulnerability to disasters—a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Miyazaki Prefecture Monday evening in Japan, initially setting off a tsunami warning before it was called off, officials said.

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

A nearly 7.0 earthquake rocked southern Japan on Monday with no reports of damage to the two nuclear power plants in the area.

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan's Kyushu region. Tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures, with a recorded 20-centimetre wave reaching Miyazaki city. Nuclear ...

A strong earthquake rattled southern Japan on Monday ... at the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant in western Japan or the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima prefecture, the outlet reported.

According to the National Weather Service's National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, there is no threat of a ...

No abnormalities were reported at the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant in western Japan or the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima prefecture, both nearest to the quake site.

The Ehime Prefecture Ikata nuclear power plant and the Kagoshima Prefecture Sendai nuclear power plant did not report any unusual activities during the warning, its operators said. The earthquake ...