Residents of Toshima, a village in southwestern Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture, are evacuating after a series of earthquakes, ...

A decades-old manga is stirring unease across East Asia, as a reissued volume predicts a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami ...

Viral rumours of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have taken the sheen off Japan's tourism boom, with ...

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

Tsunami waves can travel across deep-ocean waters as fast as 800 km/h, propelling them thousands of kilometres away from the epicentre of an earthquake. Many tsunamis consist of multiple waves ...

Tsunami sirens could be heard after the 1:18 a.m. quake urging residents to move inland, according to the Talanoa o Tonga news site. There were no initial reports of damage.

TOKYO -- Families of people killed in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami visited beaches and memorial cenotaphs in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region on Tuesday to pray for the souls of the ...

The 2011 tsunami that disabled Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors also destroyed more than 123,000 houses and killed 18,000 people.

A rare tsunami warning for coastal areas in Oregon and Northern California was canceled following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning, impacting millions of people.

A Japanese man, Yasuo Takamatsu, has been on an unwavering quest for his wife, Yuko, who was lost in the devastating 2011 tsunami. Driven by a desire to perform the last rites properly, Takamatsu ...