In February, eight school officials from Taiwan visited the ruins of an elementary school building preserved in Namie, ...

Researchers have found a link between the sun’s heat and Earth’s seismic activity. Learn more about how this discovery could ...

Navigating earthquakes is a tricky part of living in Japan. In the average year, Japanese people are shaken around 1,500 ...

A massive earthquake shook Japan, but the real nightmare was just beginning. At Fukushima, a disaster was unfolding that ...

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

Solar heat triggers changes in atmospheric temperature, which can affect rock properties and underground water movement, says ...

Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?

Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To help fill this gap, a research team has investigated the connection between ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds ...

Japan continued to battle its worst wildfire in half a century on Wednesday in a region hit by record-low rainfall, as wet ...