Tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, where the quake was centered, in the southwestern island of Kyushu, as well as nearby Kochi.

Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent ...

MEXICO CITY — A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck a region in southwestern Mexico early Sunday, according to the U.S.

An earthquake registering a magnitude of 3.7 shook part of the San Francisco Bay Area. People had reported feeling a quick jolt.

BRITAIN isn’t known as a tsunami hotspot – but it’s been struck by giant and terrifying waves. The biggest that we know of ...

Rescue workers in China ’s mountainous Tibet region are racing to reach survivors trapped under the rubble as night temperatures drop far below freezing point following a powerful earthquake.

On Christmas Day, many Helsinki residents were startled by an earthquake. Yle reported that the police received multiple reports of a loud bang in the Käpylä area. Toni Veikkolainen, a seismologist ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has warned of tsunami amid a series of earthquakes in Santa Catalina town in Ilocos Sur, as it said a ...

A SERIES of earthquakes struck the Kariba area early this week leaving residents shaken, but there were no reports of major damage or casualties. The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) attributed the ...

Nearly 40 minutes later, Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in 25 years – measuring 7.2 in magnitude with its epicentre 18km away from Hualien city – struck. Search-and-rescue personnel from the ...

the 2004 tsunami is the deadliest in recorded history. In less than six years, on March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake hit the east coast of Japan, the largest ever recorded in that country.

Japan’s biggest earthquake hit the country on March 11 ... It was the worst tsunami disaster in history. The clearing-up process in Galle, southern Sri Lanka, in 2004 The Boxing Day earthquake ...