The probability of a "megaquake" in Japan in the next 30 years has marginally increased, a government panel said Thursday, ...

For Itsuka Kikuchi, the now 45-year-old who lived in the quake-hit home at the time, the sunflowers were a psychological ...

The sun doesn't come out much during the winter in Fukui, Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, the trio making up the Hokuriku ...

A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still ...

Non-Japanese speakers were excluded from access to disaster information after the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck 30 years ...

Friday will mark 30 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck western Japan. Local governments in the region, including Kobe City, are still under a heavy financial burden from the quake ...

Dashcam footage of the earthquake in Japan on New Year’s Day 2024 has been mislabeled online as showing the magnitude 6.8 ...

A Japanese government panel said Thursday it has slightly raised its estimated probability of a "megaquake" to up to 82 percent in the next 30 years.

Hyogo Prefecture and nearby areas in western Japan.In one incident, a coach narrowly escaped falling off a broken expressway.

The Japanese government’s earthquake investigation panel raised the probability of a Nankai Trough earthquake to 80 ...