earthquake

Earthquake survivors, holding placards made of cardboard, were seen skirmishing with hastily dispatched government officials around noon on April 22, two days after a...

Nearly 1,800 islanders would likely perish if a massive earthquake struck along the Nankai Trough on the Pacific side of Japan's mainland, a study says.

Japan's nuclear watchdog said it will seek to address unanswered questions about the Fukushima nuclear disaster in a report to be submitted to the Vienna-based International...

LUSHAN, China--Hundreds of survivors of a 6.6 magnitude earthquake that hit southwest China, killing nearly 200 people, pushed into traffic along a main road on April 22,...

BEIJING--With more than 500 million people using Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, public criticism of the government’s response to the April 20 earthquake in Lushan...

LUSHAN, China--Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China on April 21 as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in...

When Awajishima island in Hyogo Prefecture was jolted on April 13 by a strong quake, some people thought it had to be the dreaded Nankai Trough earthquake that seismologists...

An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 6.3 shook Awajishima island and surrounding areas in western Japan early April 13, injuring at least 23 people.

A magnitude-9.1 earthquake off the southern coast of Japan could cause 220.3 trillion yen ($2.33 trillion) in damage, or 42 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, a ...

When put side by side, the colors orange and blue accentuate each other. In chromatics, hues of such a relation are called complementary colors.

In February 2012, documentary filmmaker Kenji Aoike released a film with first-person accounts from elementary schoolchildren in Miyagi Prefecture who survived the Great East...

Japan’s 10 nuclear power plant operators said it will cost close to 1 trillion yen ($10.87 billion) to bring them in compliance with government-mandated safety standards on...

Tokyo Bay could be the site of an ecological disaster if a major earthquake struck south of Japan's coast, say experts, citing ground motions that would cause sloshing in oil...

HIROSHIMA--A strong earthquake could collapse parts of the Atomic Bomb Dome, the building that withstood the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and became an international symbol ...

To clarify a loosely defined government "guideline," the nuclear industry watchdog decided on Jan. 22 it will expressly prohibit reactor buildings and other key safety-related...