The Japanese government has updated its earthquake preparedness plan due to increased risks of a megaquake in the Nankai ...

A new preparedness plan issued on Tuesday calls for an increase in efforts to construct embankments, evacuation buildings and public drills.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Monday acknowledged the possibility of future ...

Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan. If confirmed, the temblor would be a shock to geologists who thought rocks that deep inside Earth were too putty-like to break and ...

Scientists are keeping a close watch on the chances of a megathrust earthquake happening soon. These are the strongest types ...

A 300-meter-high tsunami crashing into the US coast might sound like science fiction—but scientists say it's a very real ...

Tennessee agencies conducted a major earthquake response drill, Vigilant Guard 2025, to improve disaster preparedness. Nashville. National Politics Crime Weather Food Arts More. Subscribe.

The magnitude 3.2 quake struck at 12:21 p.m., 9 miles south of Fort Irwin, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake, with a depth of about 4 miles, was centered on the south end of ...

Teachers and staff in low-lying schools along the Pacific Northwest coast face an unusual extra responsibility alongside educators’ usual duties: can they herd the entire student body to higher ground ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Preston Judd scored a shorthanded goal in the third minute of second-half stoppage time to rally the San Jose Earthquakes to a 1-1 draw with the ...

TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan's meteorological agency on Friday dismissed widespread rumors of a major earthquake in Japan this summer as unscientific and a “hoax," urging people not to worry ...

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern Greece. A magnitude 5.3 quake struck the Mount Athos peninsula on June ...