Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...

Geologists don't have a crystal ball that can foresee future earthquakes, but seismic specialists in the Japanese government ...

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

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled ...

TOKYO -- In the three decades since a massive earthquake devastated the city of Kobe in 1995, shelters will be unequipped to ...

Japan is advancing its disaster preparedness with a new satellite-based programme designed to assess structural damage within ...

In today’s Thailand video news, Alex covers key stories from Thailand and Asia. Highlights include rising brawls on Pattaya Beach, a British man arrested for fraud in Pattaya, a ...

People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives.

The probability of a "megaquake" in Japan in the next 30 years has marginally increased, a government panel said Thursday, ...

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has signed an agreement with Kumamoto prefecture to further develop a programme ...

A Japanese government panel said on Thursday it had slightly raised its estimated probability of a "megaquake" to up to 82 ...