An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off Ibaraki Prefecture northeast of Tokyo early Thursday morning, ...

THE Philippines sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire — the belt of tectonic activity around the Pacific Ocean where more than ...

Despite popular belief that the world's deepest ocean trench shields Guam from tsunamis, the Mariana Trench actually poses ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) today confirmed that he visited Japan last month, adding that China's ...

The Cabinet Office has revised its guidelines on how companies and local governments should respond to emergency information ...

Scientists in Russia have revealed the geological impact of an earthquake that struck Russia's far east and prompted tsunami ...

In 2013, a groundbreaking case made news in Japan when a court ordered a school to pay $1.8 million to the parents of four ...

The latest jolt comes close on the heels of an 8.8-magnitude undersea quake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula earlier this ...

On July 30, a massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar provided the first-ever recorded footage of a ground rupture, shifting 2.5 metres in just 1.3 seconds, revolutionizing earthquake research.