A Japanese government committee on earthquake research has changed its estimate of the chance of a Nankai Trough megaquake in the next 30 years to around 80 percent, from the previous 70 to 80 percent ...

Over 90 buildings, including more than 200 businesses within the Central Business District (CBD) of Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, remain under lockdown following the 7.3-magnitude earthquake on ...

U.S. Army aviators and Japanese troops are participating in Nankai Rescue, a U.S.-Japan disaster drill that kicked off Monday ...

After a powerful earthquake struck China's remote Tibet region, killing at least 126 people, an old video of houses ...

Kiyoto Morisaki, 72, president of Kinki Taxi, who proposed the program to show the current state of Nagata Ward, said he ...

An NHK survey has shown that a majority of respondents who survived the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake have not shared ...

The Senate on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a bill on the modernization of the Philippine Institute of ...

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck southern Japan on Monday night, sending tremors through the ...

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 ...

TOKYO — A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has hit southwestern Japan, the country’s Meteorological ...