Japan's meteorological agency warns another, stronger earthquake may hit in the next week, ...

About 1,500 earthquakes strike the island nation Japan every year, with minor tremors occurring on a nearly daily basis, the University of Tokyo has said. Most of them you'd barely notice, a slight ...

Tsunami waves hit Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast on Wednesday after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's ...

New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...

For many people in Japan, the country’s regular tremors are not a big deal. Officials are urging them to prepare for the next catastrophic quake. By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from ...