On April 1, 1946, a strong earthquake near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska set off a massive tsunami that hit the Hawaiian ...

The Japanese government has issued an urgent warning over the catastrophic damage ... nine tremor occurring in the Nankai Trough off Japan's Pacific coast within the next 30 years.

Japan has lifted a tsunami warning for its northeastern coast nearly four hours after a powerful offshore earthquake. The earlier warnnig was for waves of up to 3m. The Japan Meteorological ...

The Japanese government has warned of catastrophic economic damage and nearly 300,000 deaths when the next "megaquake" hits the archipelagic nation, according to a new estimation released on Monday.

In any case, Japan has an advanced system aimed at mitigating the impact of natural disasters. These include early warning systems ... generated a 14-meter-high tsunami. The tsunami struck the ...

A newly released Japanese government report warns that a long-feared massive earthquake in the nation’s Nankai Trough could ...

Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, ...