On New Year’s Day 2024, a powerful earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, shaking homes, toppling buildings, and leaving scientists stunned. This video explores why this disaster was so unexpected, ...

The aim of the policy is to enable local governments that will provide support, and the prefectures expected to receive help, to conduct joint disaster drills and other preparations.

Japan's long wait of 15 years for a BSL-4 lab to study deadly viruses got longer after public opposition to the setup at ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Since many of the damaged houses are traditional, picturesque buildings, concerns are rising that their demolition could ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

Hundreds of small earthquakes that shook Greece's tourist hotspot of Santorini this week have revived concerns about the ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or ...

A professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Kobe University Hospital, KOTANI ...

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey -- Two years after earthquakes that killed more than 59,000 people in Turkey and Syria, Japan Inc. is ...

If we talk about the number of fatalities and the degree of destruction, three major disasters stand out in Japan. Two are ...

Experts have cautioned that while small tremors help release some energy, they don’t eliminate the risk of a major quake.