A three-day evacuation exercise involving nearly 5,000 residents began on Feb. 14 close to a nuclear power plant here.

Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?

Nearly 80 percent of municipalities within 30 kilometers of 15 nuclear power plants across Japan have a lower proportion of ...

Under the new plan, for example, the prefectural governments of Toyama, Fukushima and Shimane will send officials to Shizuoka ...

Land topography is usually formed gradually over long periods of time, but sometimes a single event can dramatically change ...

Experts have cautioned that while small tremors help release some energy, they don’t eliminate the risk of a major quake.

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a theory.