Two of Japan's nuclear power plants were rattled on Monday when a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck southwest Japan, prompting a tsunami advisory for parts of the region. This map shows the ...

The color-coded map shows the potential tsunami height ... evacuation efforts were carried out immediately after the earthquake. Japan is highly susceptible to earthquakes because of its location ...

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.

Japan lies along the circum-Pacific seismic belt, better known as the "Ring of Fire," located along the outer edges of the Pacific Ocean, where about 81 percent of the largest earthquakes in the ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck northern Osaka, killing 5 people and injuring more than 300. A government panel has released its latest earthquake probability map, which ...

An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck Japan's Kyushu on Wednesday, according to the National Center for Seismology. No reports of any damage have been reported yet. Tremors of the first earthquake ...

TOKYO, January 3. /TASS/. The death toll from the earthquakes that continue in central Japan has reached 62, as follows from the data published by the regional authorities. More than 100 people ...

In the event of a major earthquake in Japan, municipal authorities are ill-prepared to deal with its aftermath due to a lack of disaster recovery equipment and other resources, according to a new ...