The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.

Japan has warned the next "big one" earthquake to hit its Pacific coast could kill nearly 300,000 people, create £1.4trillion worth of damage to the country's economy and generate 12.3 million ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

Wednesday marks nine years since the second of the two consecutive massive earthquakes hit Japan's southwestern prefecture ... The Shin-Aso Ohashi Bridge was completed in 2021 to replace the ...

An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck Japan's Kyushu on Wednesday, according to the National Center for Seismology. No reports of any damage have been reported yet. Tremors of the first earthquake ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Up to 298,000 people are expected to be killed in Japan due mainly to a tsunami and building collapses if an earthquake of around magnitude 9 occurs in the Nankai Trough off ...

The tremors came days after Japan warned that a powerful earthquake in the Nakai Trough could kill up to 300,000 people and set off destructive tsunamis in Japan. It also comes soon after two ...