Earthquakes can’t be predicted. But a manga artist’s dream of a July 5 'megaquake' has spooked some residents and travelers.

Japan was struck by a new 6.9-magnitude earthquake on Friday morning, hitting a similar area of the Pacific coast to Monday night’s powerful 7.5-magnitude tremor. The new quake off Aomori prefecture ...

From earthquake warnings to bear attack alerts, Beijing is deploying a campaign of exaggeration and disinformation to punish ...

A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A house lies in the sea off a village near the Onagawa nuclear power plant on March 20, 2011, nine days after the deadly ...

The Japan earthquake and tsunami could result in significant shortages of certain electronic components, potentially causing pricing for these devices to increase dramatically. While there are few ...

That expedition used Japan's ultra-advanced drilling ship Chikyū, and marked the first time scientists had ever drilled directly into the fault zone of a recent megathrust earthquake. They drilled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In light of the recent tsunami and earthquake news – re: the 8.8-magnitude tremor that struck off the Russian coast, sending ...