A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake ...

Emergency alerts issued in the event of earthquakes off the Pacific coast of central Japan are expected to experience delays ...

TOKYO >> More than 20,000 communities in Japan could be cut off from the rest of the country by a major disaster, according to research by The Yomiuri Shimbun.

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off northeast Japan behaved in such an extreme and destructive way.

Fukushima Daiichi survived the most powerful earthquake in Japan’s history. The reactors shut down exactly as designed, and backup generators initially kept cooling systems running. Then the tsunami ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan received whistleblower reports regarding alleged manipulation of quake-resista ...

The earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and led to the Fukushima nuclear shutdown was amplified by a soft layer of slippery clay, according to a new study. The layer is only around ...

One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

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By Leika Kihara and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Any Japanese intervention to prop up the yen will have limited ...

The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of ...