Japan's weather agency said Friday that a malfunction in the ocean-floor observation system off the Pacific coast, installed ...

Japan completed the world’s first real-time ocean floor earthquake detection system in June 2025, giving 20 seconds more ...

Japan issued its first Nankai Trough emergency information in August last year following a major quake off Miyazaki ...

Megathrust earthquakes are large earthquakes that occur on faults found along the boundaries between tectonic plates. The ...

A clip recorded in Myanmar in March reveals a curved path of the fault slip, which can help scientists better understand the ...

A powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Sunday, just 19 minutes after a 7.0 quake ...

Researchers at Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, have taken a great stride in supporting earthquake prevention research by developing a system for seafloor position ...

Tokyo, Japan - Megathrust earthquakes are large earthquakes that occur on faults found along the boundaries between tectonic plates. The Nankai Trough ...

According to a separate group’s paper published in the same journal, the southern portion of the rupture occurred at an ...

Decontaminated but slightly radioactive soil from Fukushima has been delivered to the Japanese prime minister’s office to be ...

There are currently nine evacuees from the Tokara Islands off Kagoshima Prefecture, including Akuseki Island, according to ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has begun using the label "data not available" when tsunami observation systems are damaged ...