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

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...

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 ...

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has signed an agreement with Kumamoto prefecture to further develop a programme ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday (Jan 17) marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 ...

The probability of a “megaquake” in Japan in the next 30 years has marginally increased, a government panel said, with a 75-82% chance of it happening.

Japan is advancing its disaster preparedness with a new satellite-based programme designed to assess structural damage within ...

Municipalities with older populations tend to have lower rates of earthquake-resistant housing, an Asahi Shimbun analysis ...

The Japanese archipelago is constantly threatened by major earthquakes. It is important to make thorough preparations without ...

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

Hyogo Prefecture is also calling on the central government to pick Kansai as the base of a new disaster relief agency ...