A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off Japan's southeastern Nemuro Peninsula, with no tsunami warning issued, according to the JMA. Meanwhile, Hong Kong Airlines cut flights to southern Japan amid a ...

Teachers and staff in low-lying schools along the Pacific Northwest coast face an unusual extra responsibility alongside ...

It’s a daunting challenge with the highest possible stakes should an offshore earthquake unleash a wall of incoming seawater.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan was struck by an earthquake about 44 miles south of Hualien City, monitoring agencies said. The ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The U.N. migration agency said Wednesday that eight migrants died and 22 others were missing after they ...

California's earthquakes are far more likely to be "overdue" compared with earthquakes in the rest of the world.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan was struck by an earthquake about 71 kilometers (44.1 miles) south of Hualien City, monitoring agencies said. The quake hit seconds after cell phone alarms went off at ...

The resulting sea level rise will lead to significant flood risks for huge areas of land, making recovery even harder.

The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the ...

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of Malibu ... leaking gas and water lines, or downed power lines,” officials say. “Expect aftershocks to follow the main ...

Most earthquakes happen along fault lines, which are the boundaries between tectonic plates. Here in California, we have the San Andreas Fault. It forms the boundary between the Pacific and North ...

Hundreds of miles of coastline in the Pacific Northwest ... The aforementioned earthquake minefield is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, an undersea fault line roughly 100 miles off the coast ...