Two strong earthquakes shook southern Japan Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) map shows. The quakes were ...

Two moderate earthquakes struck off Japan's northeastern coast today, the U.S. Geological Survey said — a magnitude 5.5 tremor about 39 miles east of Onagawa Chō and a magnitude 5.0 quake roughly 38 ...

Japan, one of the world's most seismically active nations, faces frequent quakes due to its location along the Pacific "Ring ...

The Juan de Fuca Plate has been steadily pushing against the Pacific Coast as it slides beneath the North American Plate. But ...

Mount Fuji is the postcard-perfect backdrop to the largest city on Earth, Tokyo. Some 37 million people crowd into its ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded rocked Russia's remote far-eastern coast on Wednesday, sending tsunami waves towards Japan, Hawaii and the west coast of the US and triggering evacuation ...

Update: The tsunami warning for Hawaii and Japan was lowered to an advisory overnight. Read the latest here. Our earlier story is below. A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit near Russia's Kamchatka ...

The Japanese government said Tuesday it is allocating some 52.9 billion yen ($358 million) in reserve funds to support disaster-hit a ...

As catastrophic as the 2011 northern Japan quake and tsunami was—killing more than 15,000 people and causing more than $200 billion in economic damages—in a way, the country was lucky. Tokyo, a city ...

Precisely at this time when the spread of exclusionist trends is a cause of concern, we should take a square look at the ...