In 2011, Japan suffered one of the worst environmental disasters in modern history. A magnitude 9.0 struck under the Pacific Ocean, 72 km east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region of Japan.

In light of the recent tsunami and earthquake news – re: the 8.8-magnitude tremor that struck off the Russian coast, sending tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean – the threat of tectonic shifts ...

Late on Monday, at 4:53pm local time, a powerful earthquake hit Japan. Reports vary, but the magnitude was somewhere between 7.4 and 7.7 on the Richter scale. It shook buildings, tore up roads, caused ...

The Japan Trench, an enormous subduction zone off northeastern Japan, reaches depths exceeding 8,000 meters beneath the Pacific Ocean. On March 11, 2011, movement along the trench triggered the ...

For those like me who just rolled out of bed, we missed the news of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan which set off a devastating tsunami in the northern part of the country. There was an alert ...

A major earthquake rocked Japan's northern coast on Monday, with the country's meteorological agency recording several tsunami waves and local media reporting injuries. The magnitude 7.6 quake—which ...

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on Monday, as authorities urged residents to stay away from coastal areas where tsunami waves of up to 9.84 ft were expected. The ...

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck northern Japan on April 20, Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, issuing a tsunami warning for waves up to three metres (10 feet). The quake, which hit at 4:53 ...