Tuesday's 8.8 magnitude earthquake is the largest detected on the planet since March of 2011, when a violent 9.0 shook Tohoku ...

Millions of people were told to move away from the shore or seek high ground because they were potentially in the path of the ...

Memories are more recent – and much more raw – in Japan, where the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake struck with a ...

The earthquake was powerful. One of the strongest ever recorded. Unlike 2011's Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, there ...

STEVEN CHU is Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University and ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded has hit off Russia's sparsely populated Far East. Authorities warned the risk ...

Russia's 8.8 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday (Jul 30) triggered an emergency evacuation at the Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan. As per reports, all workers of the stricken nuclear plant ...

As sirens wailed across coastal towns, officials rushed to evacuate residents, with more than 2 million people placed under advisories in over 220 municipalities.Posting on social media, one user ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company newly released plan reveals the challenges to decommissioning the Fukushima nuclear plant by the ...