New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted Ryukyu Islands, Japan at 2148 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a ...

Since 2011, scientists have been puzzled about the force resulting from a gigantic earthquake and tsunami that destroyed, among other things, Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant. Now, a Guinness World ...

Misawa Air Base, a shared U.S. and Japanese fighter base in northeastern Japan, was spared serious damage from a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck the area this week. “Misawa Air Base sustained ...

More than 1,300 earthquakes have hit Japan’s Tokara Islands in two weeks, prompting evacuations of dozens of residents from the remote archipelago on the country’s southern tip. Although no major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A house lies in the sea off a village near the Onagawa nuclear power plant on March 20, 2011, nine days after the deadly ...

The Japanese people have just given Sanae Takaichi a super-majority in the parliament. It signals a period of great change ...

A new study claims that an 80-100-foot-wide layer of clay exacerbated the 2011 earthquake.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A strong earthquake and several subsequent tremors rattled northern Japan on Sunday evening, triggering tsunami advisories along ...

The Japan earthquake and tsunami could result in significant shortages of certain electronic components, potentially causing pricing for these devices to increase dramatically. While there are few ...