The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has called for continued caution over potential tremors and tsunamis despite a gradual ...

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has signed an agreement with Kumamoto prefecture to further develop a programme ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 jolted Fukushima Prefecture and nearby areas early Thursday, the weather agency said. No tsunami warning has been issued. The 2:49 a.m. quake measured ...

The Nankai Trough, where the Philippine Sea Plate is slipping under the Eurasia Plate at the bottom of the sea off the ...

People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives. On ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency urged Kyushu residents to be wary of aftershocks from the strong Jan. 13 earthquake but said the temblor did not heighten the risk of a dreaded Nankai Trough megaquake.

A "megaquake" hitting Japan in the next 30 years could trigger 100-foot tsunamis and kill hundreds of thousands of people.

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

When a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Monday, an experts' panel at the Japan Meteorological Agency examined its possible relationship ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has called for continued caution over potential tremors and tsunamis despite a gradual decrease in seismic activity a week after the magnitude 6.6 earthquake ...

following the massive Noto Peninsula earthquake in central Japan on Jan. 1, 2024, and the Japan Meteorological Agency's release last August of emergency information about a possible Nankai Trough ...