The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a theory.

Land topography is usually formed gradually over long periods of time, but sometimes a single event can dramatically change ...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia's North Maluku, the geophysics agency said on Wednesday.

Japan Meteorological Agency issued what it calls Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra Information, which is a bulletin about the ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing little damage but possibly portending more seismic activity in the near future ...

Reversing its longstanding policy, the government plans to release stockpiled rice for emergency use if distribution problems occur, not just when there is a bad harvest.

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...

In the aftermath of the devastating Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, collapsed buildings blocked rescue efforts and ...

The “Open Seminar” is a forum for dialogue between researchers and citizens on themes such as disaster prevention and recovery. Organized once a month by the Kobe University Research Center for Urban ...