Much like the U.S.’s strategic petroleum reserve, Japan stockpiles up to 1 million tons (equal to the weight of 5,000 blue whales) of the country’s national staple crop. The reserve equates to about ...

The probability of a magnitude-8 or -9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has risen to “around 80 percent,” according to the government’s Earthquake Research ...

With the looming threat of the Nankai Trough megaquake and Tokyo inland earthquake, immediate countermeasures are crucial. In the Great Hanshin Earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995, around 250,000 homes ...

2025 Southern Japan was hit by a strong earthquake on Monday that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year. Tibet's earthquake ...

AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...

A GNS scientist says a cluster of small earthquakes around Taupō were quite close to the surface - which is why so many people felt them. The series of shakes began just before 6pm on Thursday and ...

The author Meghan Daum recalled on her podcast about what it was like to drop everything and leave her home in the neighborhood often called LA's "best kept secret." ...