A preliminary magnitude-?? earthquake was reported… Whether you feel shaking from an earthquake largely depends on three major factors — magnitude, distance and local soil conditions. Magnitude refers ...

Fukushima Daiichi survived the most powerful earthquake in Japan’s history. The reactors shut down exactly as designed, and ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

KOBE: On Jan 20, 1995, three days after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a baby girl weighing 2.97 kilogrammes was born at ...

Every time a major disaster has occurred, such as the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Kumamoto Earthquake and the Noto ...

A technical glitch has delayed the Japan nuclear restart at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, the world's largest, amid ongoing ...

Survivors and residents on Saturday shared their grief and memories of the calamity wrought by the major earthquake that ...

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the Oregon Coast on Jan. 15. The earthquake was detected around 7:25 p.m., ...

When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors ...

The plane’s loudspeaker system will announce that the flight is a test of the Civil Air Patrol’s public address system and ...

Sooner or later, in any foolproof system, the fools are going to exceed the proofs. I awoke on the Friday morning of March 11, 2011, to a peaceful, sunny, ...

An international team's seafloor study revealed one reason why the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami were so devastating. The ...