Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?

Nearly 80 percent of municipalities within 30 kilometers of 15 nuclear power plants across Japan have a lower proportion of ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Under the new plan, for example, the prefectural governments of Toyama, Fukushima and Shimane will send officials to Shizuoka ...

On New Year’s Day 2024, a powerful earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, shaking homes, toppling buildings, and leaving ...

About 90% of earthquakes happen along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which stretches all the way from New Zealand, up through Indonesia and Japan, across the Pacific at Alaska's Aleutian Islands ...

On 11 March, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake sent a tsunami hurtling towards Japan's east coast, killing 20,000 people, ...

Many roads built on piled-up soil collapsed after a powerful earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in January 2024.

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake sent a tsunami hurtling towards Japan's east coast, killing 20,000 people, wiping out 120,000 buildings and sparking a partial meltdown at the Fukushima ...

The Japanese government said today it will release its stockpile of rice — the nation’s cherished staple food — reserved for emergency use in response ...

This simple interwar cottage, which was damaged in the 1989 Newcastle earthquake, is now an architectural treasure in harmony ...