The head of Japan's meteorological agency has dismissed widespread rumours of a major earthquake in Japan next month as ...

In the critical 72 hours after an earthquake or explosion, a race against the clock begins to find survivors. After that window, the chances of survival drop sharply.

Tsunamis and earthquakes pose devastating threats to coastal communities worldwide. However, beyond the immediate destructive ...

The head of Japan's meteorological agency on Friday dismissed widespread rumors of a major earthquake in Japan this summer as unscientific and a “hoax," urging people not to worry because even the ...

Japan is on edge as a manga artist's past accurate predictions, including the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, fuel fears about her ...

Landslides, earthquakes, and subduction faults could generate 1,000-foot mega-tsunamis, wiping coastal communities off the ...

Among measures to maintain lifelines, the proportion of important facilities with water and sewerage systems that have undergone quake-resistance work will be increased to 32% in 2030, up from 12% in ...

History has a way of repeating itself. But unlike science, built on general principles and testable theories about the ...

ITALY: Infrastructure manager RFI has inaugurated a seismic warning system to enhance safety on the 211 km Roma - Napoli high ...

A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he ...

A Japanese court has ruled former executives at the utility managing the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...