The Cabinet Office released on March 31 slightly lower death and disaster projections from an expected Nankai Trough ...

Prepare for an earth-shaking event! Scientists warn that a massive earthquake is on the horizon, and it has the potential to ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first megaquake advisory, covering 707 municipalities from Okinawa to Ibaraki ...

Japan on Tuesday issued its first high-level warning that a so-called “megaquake” could follow the previous night’s 7.5-magnitude offshore tremor. The authorities cautioned that the coming days would ...

On Monday, at 4:53 P.M. local time, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the northeastern shores of Japan’s largest island, Honshu, where the Pacific tectonic plate plunges beneath the North American ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan issued a megaquake advisory Tuesday after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan’s main island of Honshu, and just ...

There’s a small chance a megaquake could hit Japan in the following week. But what even is that? Here's our explainer, drawing from scientific measures, historical quakes and how the unique geological ...

TOKYO (AP) — A 7.7 magnitude earthquake Monday off northern Japan sparked a short-lived tsunami alert and an advisory of a slightly higher risk of a possible megaquake for its coastal areas. The ...

Authorities in Japan downgraded a tsunami warning to an advisory after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off its northeastern coast on Monday (April 20). The quake, which hit at 4:53 p.m.