A chilling warning has rippled through Japan, a nation all too familiar with the earth’s raw power. The Japanese government ...

Japan is bolstering its earthquake defenses following increased seismic activity near the Tokara Islands, raising concerns ...

Japan is no stranger to seismic activity. As one of the most earthquake-prone countries on Earth, it sits atop four major ...

Op-ed: In the Philippines and across the Global South, people have spent centuries building structures to survive – and to ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

As the northern Chilean city of Copiapo was preparing last week to hold earthquake drills, it was hit by a real-life one: a 6.4-magnitude quake that cut power to thousands and caused structural damage ...

There are seven major tectonic plates and several smaller ones. The major plates include the Pacific, North American, Eurasian, African, South American, Antarctic, and Indo-Australian Plates ...

It was a magnitude 8 disaster that led to the loss of over 1,300 lives. In 1940, another major earthquake of 7.5 magnitude had struck off the coast of Hokkaido and induced a tsunami.

Eighteen thousand people died and several thousand victims were never recovered. San Andreas pales in comparison, holding only 6& of the energy of Japan’s 2011 disaster.

These movements are often found at tectonic plate boundaries, where two or more plates interact. However, in the case of Telangana, the quakes originate from small fractures within the Indian ...