The Chinese Embassy in Japan has warned its citizens residing in the country to think twice about buying real estate in Japan ...

TOKYO -- Roughly 60% of Japanese localities in the area where the next megaquake is expected to hit lack one or more critical supplies that would serve the needs of evacuees, according to a Nikkei ...

For communities living in the shadow of a volcano, early warning systems are a lifeline—but mistrust in these warnings can ...

People across Japan bowed their heads and prayed on March 11 for the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan 14 years ago. Prime Minister Shigeru ...

On New Year's Day 2024, a massive 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in north central Japan, resulting in ...

Ishikawa Prefecture's Noto region on Thursday welcomed the first students on a school trip since it was hit by a massive ...

It's a matter of when -- not if -- a significant earthquake will shake the Pacific Northwest, and a new study says some areas ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...

The next major Pacific Northwest earthquake could cause coastal land to sink by up to 6.5 feet in a matter of minutes — and ...

SUZU, Ishikawa -- Salt production using the "agehama" method, which had been practiced in the northern Noto Peninsula's ...

A big quake in the Pacific Northwest today could cause coastal land to sink rapidly — up to seven feet, a new study finds.

Earthquakes are part of nature but they do not have to be disasters. DW looks at some countries that are showing how ...