Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

Land topography is usually formed gradually over long periods of time, but sometimes a single event can dramatically change ...

Rescuers are in a race against time as they search for survivors of a powerful earthquake which rocked ... about 185 miles from Tokyo on the opposite coast. The quake set off tsunami warnings ...

the headquarters of U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo. The quake collapsed buildings, shredded highways and killed hundreds of people in towns and villages on the peninsula. Nankai Rescue involves air ...

Rescue workers need to be swift to assess where they are most ... Buildings like these are quick to collapse in an earthquake but their light weight and low height can give people a relatively good ...

A sinkhole at an intersection near Tokyo that swallowed a truck collapsed further Thursday and merged with a second opening that had formed nearby, as rescue efforts continued into a third day to save ...

Japanese rescuers completed building a slope on Saturday to reach a truck driver stuck in a sinkhole, officials said, four ...

A truck driver has spent more than 24 hours trapped under a sinkhole in Japan that swallowed his vehicle in the greater Tokyo area ... Japan Today reported. A rescue operation is underway ...

Officials in Yashio city, located north of Tokyo, are trying to rescue a 74-year-old man whose truck was swallowed by a massive sinkhole on Tuesday.View on euronews ...

What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a theory.

THE last Seismometric Report issued by the Earthquake Research Institute completes the list of earthquakes felt in Tokyo in 1936. In addition to the central station, there are eleven others at ...

The probability of a “megaquake” happening in Japan within the next 30 years has risen to over 80 per cent, the government’s earthquake ... at the University of Tokyo, said during a press ...