Japan completed the world’s first real-time ocean floor earthquake detection system in June 2025, giving 20 seconds more ...

Japan's northern island of Hokkaido sweltered on Wednesday as temperatures hit record highs in several towns and authorities issued heat stroke alerts across the country.

After being frozen for many years following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, movement has begun toward the construction of new nuclear reactors. The hope is that Kansai Electric Power Co. will ...

Kansai Electric Power will begin surveys for the construction of a new nuclear power reactor at its Mihama power station in ...

Kansai Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it plans to begin a geological survey to replace a nuclear reactor on the premises of ...

Several earthquakes, including a 7.4 magnitude one, struck off the Russian coast on Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, prompting brief warnings of potential tsunami waves on the nearby ...

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 30-year-old man and his 26-year-old wife on suspicion of parental neglect after they left their three young children at home for 6 1/2 hours while they went out ...

Earthquake in Japan: a 3D model reveals how hidden faults raised the ground by up to 5 meters on the Noto Peninsula.

The Japan Meteorological Agency reported a maximum seismic intensity of 3 in one instance, with the remaining tremors being ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lightly populated stretch of Alaska’s southern coast was under a tsunami warning Wednesday after a ...

A new study corrects the recorded depth of an earthquake in Japan, revealing that it was not the deepest in history.