The sun doesn't come out much during the winter in Fukui, Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, the trio making up the Hokuriku ...

A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still ...

TOKYO -- In the three decades since a massive earthquake devastated the city of Kobe in 1995, shelters will be unequipped to accommodate at least 530,000 evacuees if a similar disaster were to occur ...

Non-Japanese speakers were excluded from access to disaster information after the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck 30 years ...

A "megaquake" hitting Japan in the next 30 years could trigger 100-foot tsunamis and kill hundreds of thousands of people.

A memorial event for thousands of victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake has started in Kobe City, western Japan, on ...

Dashcam footage of the earthquake in Japan on New Year’s Day 2024 has been mislabeled online as showing the magnitude 6.8 ...

The Japanese government warns of an 80% chance of a magnitude 8-9 earthquake in the Nankai Trough within 30 years. Experts highlight potential catastrophic damage, including massive tsunamis, as ...

Kiyoto Morisaki, 72, president of Kinki Taxi, who proposed the program to show the current state of Nagata Ward, said he ...

The Japanese government’s earthquake investigation panel raised the probability of a Nankai Trough earthquake to 80 ...

Such a jolt could potentially have a devastating 8-9 magnitude and trigger colossal tsunamis. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A Japanese government committee on earthquake research has changed its estimate of the chance of a Nankai Trough megaquake in ...