A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has hit southwestern Japan, the country’s Meteorological Agency said Monday, while warning the public to stay away from coastal areas ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

A strong earthquake has struck southwestern Japan The Japan Meteorological Agency says the magnitude 7.1 quake occurred in and around Miyazaki Prefecture, and had an intensity of lower 6 on the ...

A strong earthquake that struck southwestern Japan early Jan. 22 without causing major damage was deemed unlikely to trigger a long-feared offshore megaquake in the Nankai Trough facing the ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series of tsunami waves, some of them 40 feet high.

Japan has warned the next "big one" earthquake to hit its Pacific coast could kill nearly 300,000 people, create £1.4trillion worth of damage to the country's economy and generate 12.3 million ...

Thousands of families lost their homes when the 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Japan's remote Noto peninsula on New Year's Day. Children in the affected areas need food and shelter and basic support ...

The Chinese embassy in Tokyo appears to have inadvertently exacerbated concerns about the possibility of a major earthquake occurring in Japan this summer – drawing attention to previous rumours ...

The Pacific Northwest is ripe for a major earthquake — and shaking and tsunamis ... “We could have a disaster on the scale of Japan 2011 or Sumatra 2004,” said Tina Dura, the study’s ...