Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California's heavily populated coastal communities.

A marathon event was held in Suzu City in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, for the first time in six years. Participants ...

The rare appearance of the deep-sea oarfish, believed in folklore to warn of impending disasters, has triggered fear and ...

Soon after a powerful earthquake devastated Japan's Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day 2024, councilor Tsuyoshi Yamahana heard ...

A recent report presented to city council painted a bleak picture of what a long-feared megathrust earthquake—commonly known ...

Several predictions made by Ryo Tatsuki have proven accurate. These include COVID-19 pandemic, the deaths of Freddie Mercury ...

The judicial ruling was that the scale of the tsunami had exceeded predictions and its occurrence could not have been foreseen. Nevertheless, it would be unjustifiable if an accident at a nuclear ...

A Japanese high court on Friday overturned a ruling ordering former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.

TOKYO: A law allowing nuclear reactors to operate beyond 60 years took effect in Japan on Friday (Jun 6), as the government ...

A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he ...

The Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court's decision requiring former TEPCO executives to pay compensation for the ...

A rare deep-sea creature known as the oarfish has recently been spotted off the coast of Tamil Nadu, India, sparking ...