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Monday marks one month since seismic activity intensified in the sea around the Tokara island chain in southwestern Japan, with nearly 2,200 tremors perceptible to people so far recorded. ( read original story ...)

A powerful 7.4 earthquake has struck off the coast of Russia, with the tremor felt in Alaska, Japan, and Hawaii, prompting tsunami warnings to be issued in the region ... ( read original story ...)

A powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula early Sunday, just 19 minutes after a 7.0 quake in the same region. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued alerts for ... ( read original story ...)

Nearly 2,200 earthquakes strong enough to be felt by humans have recently struck around a southwestern Japanese island chain. ( read original story ...)

The United States and Japan concluded a weeklong disaster-response exercise that simulated a magnitude 7 earthquake, the first to bring together U.S. Forces Japan and the country’s newly formed Joint ... ( read original story ...)

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

Japan's weather agency said Wednesday that data from an offshore tsunami gauge in the Pacific Ocean is currently unavailable, raising ... ( read original story ...)

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

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii has notified Japan's Meteorological Agency that an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.2 has struck off the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. ( read original story ...)

Japan's new earthquake-sensing nervous system spans ocean fault zones, boosting tsunami warnings by up to 20 minutes and helping prevent disasters like the 2011 catastrophe. The post ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is facing a seismic crisis. Over 1,700 earthquakes have rocked the Tokara Islands, triggering evacuations and raising fears of an even greater disaster. With an 80% chance of a magnitude-9 quake ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan branch of HDI Global SE, part of Germany-based insurer Talanx AG, in collaboration with Descartes Underwriting, the parametric risk transfer ... ( read original story ...)

Authorities are warning of more earthquakes around the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. 1,900 tremors perceptible to humans have hit the region in recent weeks. ( read original story ...)

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic cables linking 186 observatories across the ocean floor. It’s designed to ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant upgrades to the plan to safeguard the public in the event of a major earthquake off southern Japan and to respond in the event that disaster does ... ( read original story ...)

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly shaking from earthquakes, having chosen to stay behind while his family fled to ... ( read original story ...)