A newly released Japanese government report warns that a long-feared massive earthquake in the nation’s Nankai Trough could ...

The Japanese government has warned of catastrophic economic damage and nearly 300,000 deaths when the next "megaquake" hits the archipelagic nation, according to a new estimation released on Monday.

An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck Japan's Kyushu on Wednesday, according to the National Center for Seismology. No ...

The tremors came days after Japan warned that a powerful earthquake in the Nakai Trough ... 900 km (600 miles), where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting under the Eurasian Plate.

Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, ...

Japan issued its first-ever megaquake advisory last year after detecting increased ... may cause devastating earthquakes. Deep-sea mystery: Can oarfish predict earthquakes and tsunamis?

The Japanese government has sent officials to Myanmar to coordinate on the planned dispatch of an emergency relief team to the Southeast Asian nation hit by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, Chief ...

The quake shook a swath of Southeast Asia. Myanmar’s military government said 144 people were killed in just three cities.

The earthquake comes days after a 7.7-magnitude ... is where the Philippine Sea tectonic plate is gradually subducted beneath the continental plate on which Japan rests. Over time, the plates ...