The disaster killed 15,900 people, with 2,520 people still listed as missing as of the end of February, according to the ...

SEATTLE — Tuesday's 8.8 magnitude earthquake is the largest detected on the planet since March of 2011, when a violent 9.0 shook Tohoku, Japan. This earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami, with ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, prompting tsunami warnings in coastal towns in multiple countries. The earthquake was "on ...

Japan's Tohoku Electric Power said on Wednesday it had received the green light from a local governor to restart one of its nuclear reactors, nearly a decade after it was damaged in the earthquake and ...

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific. The quake, the largest since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, occurred on a "megathrust ...