Earthquakes are generally understood to rupture outward from their starting point beneath the ground, sending seismic waves ...

At 4:42 in the afternoon on August 8, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered under the Hyūganada Sea off of the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture rattled Kyūshū, bringing shaking of lower 6 seismic intensity ...

In August last year the Japanese authorities issued an unprecedented earthquake warning to communities near the Nankai Trough south of Honshū and Shikoku. A book by a veteran seismologist urges people ...

Navigating earthquakes is a tricky part of living in Japan. In the average year, Japanese people are shaken around 1,500 times. While most of these are minor shakes, experts say Japan is due for a ...