A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2025 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event, but triggered by a mineralogical shift in Earth’s mantle.
A shocking accident occurred in which a road suddenly collapsed, even though there had been no earthquake, and a truck ...
Japan’s plans to transform the remote uninhabited island of Mageshima into a strategic military hub have hit a wall.
Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...
Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling ...
The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...