A new government estimate from Japan has projected that a "capital direct-under earthquake" of magnitude 7 or higher in Tokyo ...

The quake struck the country's north just days after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in the same region injured 50 people.

Japan is among the most earthquake-prone nations in the world, due to its location along the volatile Pacific Ring of Fire.

More than 1,300 earthquakes have hit Japan’s Tokara Islands in two weeks, prompting evacuations of dozens of residents from the remote archipelago on the country’s southern tip. Although no major ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — “We are creating our own earthquake,” Tara Hutchinson, a professor of structural engineering at UCSD said. UC San Diego’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center is home to ...

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 ...