The “Open Seminar” is a forum for dialogue between researchers and citizens on themes such as disaster prevention and ...

Japan's government and experts have issued a warning about the increasing likelihood of a mega-earthquake striking the nation ...

The new threat level issued by Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee is similar to estimates published in the journal ...

People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives.

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...

The Earthquake Research Committee has upped its estimate of the probability of such a devastating earthquake happening in an area called the Nankai Trough, an 800-kilometer (about 497-mile ...

It concerns what is known as a subduction megathrust quake along the Nankai Trough, an 800-kilometre (500-mile) undersea gully running parallel to Japan's Pacific coast. The trench is where the ...

TOKYO - A Japanese government panel said on Jan 16 it has slightly raised its estimated probability of a “mega quake” to up to 82 per cent in the next 30 years. Such a jolt could potentially ...