Takanami, Tonami, Toyama Prefecture, Japan Video Recording Date/Time: February 5, 2025 Heavy snowfall has battered a wide ...

The Nankai Trough carves out around 900 kilometers (559 miles) along the south of Japan's biggest island of Honshu. It’s a subduction zone located where the Philippine Sea Plate is being ...

JAPAN issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the country on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 23 miles and mainly hit the southwestern Kyushu region, said the ...

The cause of the potential earthquake is the movement of two tectonic plates: the Philippine Sea plate is slowly slipping beneath the continental plate that Japan sits on. As these plates move, they ...

but all too common near tectonic plate boundaries in places like Italy, Japan, Trinidad, and Azerbaijan. Although mud volcanoes can be highly destructive events, these bouts of volcanism—usually ...

The committee calculates the probability of earthquakes occurring under the sea around Japan ... Authority of Japan. Officials said the quake originated where tectonic plates meet near the western ...

Please do not enter the sea or go near coastal ... Sitting on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, Japan is one of the world’s most ...

Diplomatic Courier editor Jeremy Fugleberg brings you three under–the–radar stories from the Hinterlands: scientists search ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Some 11 cities in the Kochi Prefecture were issued with evacuation orders earlier on Monday before the warning was lifted. The quake struck at 9.19 pm local time (12.19pm GMT), according to the ...

Japan's government and experts have issued a warning about the increasing likelihood of a mega-earthquake striking the nation within the next 30 years.

Please do not enter the sea or go near ... the United States. Japan is among the most earthquake-prone countries globally, due to it sitting across four converging tectonic plates that grind ...