In northern Japan, scientists uncovered soft amber buried 11,000 feet below the sea — a stunning clue to a forgotten ...

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

Japan is concerned about China’s acceleration of its military buildup, especially in Japan’s southwestern areas.

If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the massive Ca ...

Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

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

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

At 90, the Dalai Lama is still one of the world's most powerful spiritual leaders, writes Pico Iyer. Here’s why.

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

Japan’s government on Saturday warned of more possible strong earthquakes in waters southwest of its main islands, but urged ...