Tsunamis can be triggered as secondary disasters following megathrust earthquakes, with their intensity largely dependent on the magnitude of shallow seismic ruptures. Historically, considerable ...

After a series of earthquakes rocked California last week, a scientist has warned that the Golden State isn't the only area ...

Japan has restarted 14 reactors in the last decade to meet growing demand for power in the world’s fourth-biggest economy.

Deep-sea oarfish and anglerfish sightings near shores fuel speculation about impending disasters, but scientists remain ...

After the Great East Japan Earthquake struck on March ... arrival time had passed or that the waves wouldn’t reach their location. The tsunami observation network in Japan has since been ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, which spawned the giant tsunami that triggered the ... measuring the initial P-waves when an earthquake strikes. Agency computers collate the ...

A total of 74 children and 10 teachers died at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in the tsunami spawned by the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ...

The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), began the dismantling of the treated ...

The rare oarfish was found washed up on the Canary Islands, but that did not stop social media become worried a natural disaster could be imminent ...

Navigating earthquakes is a tricky part of living in Japan. In the average year, Japanese people are shaken around 1,500 ...