Japan experiences around 1,500 earthquakes that are strong enough to be felt every year, a staggering figure that would seem ...

Powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela and Japan days apart, with Venezuela facing a deadly disaster due to fault complexity ...

Venezuela and Japan are both hit by strong quakes, but Venezuela faces higher risks due to weaker building standards.

For many people in Japan, the country’s regular tremors are not a big deal. Officials are urging them to prepare for the next catastrophic quake. By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from ...

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of ...

A powerful earthquake has struck off Japan’s northern coast but there was no danger of a tsunami, the country’s ...

Most people assume that surviving an earthquake is mostly a matter of luck. The ground shakes, buildings either hold or they ...

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on Monday, prompting authorities to urge residents to stay away from coastal areas where tsunami waves of up to 3 meters (10 ft.) ...

Powerful 2011 Japan earthquake may have moved whole country further east - Findings point to previously unknown earthquake ...