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

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Rail fans bid farewell to one of Japan's iconic "Doctor Yellow" bullet trains, used to diagnose faults on ...

Japan intensified its scientific efforts to ... by the uplift and tilting of gigantic blocks of rock along these fault lines during repeated past earthquakes. After the quake, the government ...

A major railway line is closed after a car driven by a suspected drunk-driver crashed on to train tracks. Images from the ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

Japan is frequently hit by earthquakes due to its location along the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. Experts at the meteorological agency met late ...

The earthquake in Japan was a magnitude of 6.7 ... refers to the array — or the “ring” — of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific. A major and recent earthquake took place in August ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency said. The country frequently suffers earthquakes because of its location along the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of fault lines and volcanoes in the Pacific Basin.

Tectonic activity along a fault line carried the jade to the surface, and river currents distributed it to the surrounding regions and the Sea of Japan. Waves splish-splash and wash jade and other ...

Southern Japan has been hit by a strong earthquake that authorities say did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year. A quake with a preliminary ...