The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

Jan. 26, 2025, marks 325 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve learned about this largest fault system in the lower 48 states ...

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The new threat level issued by Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee is similar to estimates published in the journal ...

As aftershocks rumbled and tsunami warnings rang out ... a national high school baseball tournament that is the largest amateur sporting event in Japan. Ofunato had not reached Koshien in 35 ...

(Kyodo News via AP) Staff clean up shattered and scattered glass caused by the earthquake at JR Miyazaki Airport Station, in Miyazaki, in southwestern Japan, Monday Jan. 13, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP) ...

Japan issued a tsunami advisory on Monday after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the southwest of the country. The public warnings to stay away from coastal areas were later lifted. The agency ...

leading the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue a rare tsunami warning for both Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures. The Best Movies of All Time UK's biggest 'dinosaur highway' footprint site ...

"Tsunami can strike repeatedly ... killing nearly 470 people in Japan's biggest jolt in over a decade, many of them elderly residents in the aftermath. Last August the JMA warned that the ...