A rare slow-motion earthquake discovered off Japan’s coast sheds light on tectonic behavior and may improve tsunami ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

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

Nisqually earthquake shook for under a minute but triggered decades of political aftershocks that led Seattle to where it is ...

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

Interior Ministry assures public of tsunami readiness with 24-hour quake monitoring, alerts, drills and SOPs after undersea quakes spark panic.

Earthquakes can’t be predicted. But a manga artist’s dream of a July 5 'megaquake' has spooked some residents and travelers.

Viral rumours of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have taken the sheen off Japan's tourism boom, with ...

More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, keeping ...

Scientists have uncovered a rare slow-motion earthquake in Japan’s most tsunami-prone fault zone.