Japan faces rising megaquake fears after over 1,000 tremors. Here’s what’s fact, what’s fiction, and how to stay prepared ...

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors in recent weeks.

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, which ...

Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, given its location within the Pacific Ring of Fire, a ...

Over 1,600 quakes hit Japan's Tokara Islands, sparking fears after a manga predicted a megaquake on 5 July. Experts warn ...

The nation’s top earthquake expert has dismissed claims circulating online that the recent chain of intense seismic activity ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course ...

In a scientific first, researchers have tracked the elusive motion of a rare variety of earthquake during a seismic event ...

A Japan Meteorological Agency panel says no noticeable seismic activity has been observed in areas where a Nankai Trough ...

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

Detection and analysis of seafloor deformation above a subducting plate interface such in the Nankai Trough is a key to understand how large earthquake nucleates in the plate interface. We conceived a ...