Japan raises probability of megaquake to over 80% in next 30 years - Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation ...

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to investigate the plate boundary fault that ruptured during the Tohoku ...

The plate boundary sits between Suruga Bay in central Japan, and the Hyuganada Sea in Kyushu to the south. After last week’s warning, some shops were reportedly left with empty shelves or forced ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts ... volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle ...

A strong earthquake that struck southwestern Japan early Jan. 22 without ... is expected to strike along the boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate. But the Jan. 22 temblor ...