The fault that produced the earthquake lies between two pieces of hard rock sandwiching a slippery clay layer, allowing for ...

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa was among 54 reactors shut after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off northeast ...

The Niigata region in Japan is expected to approve the restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant on Monday, .

The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant on Monday ...

Japan lifted a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off ...

A cafe set up by Japanese actor Ken Watanabe dedicated to the reconstruction efforts of an area hit by the massive earthquake ...

A cafe set up by Japanese actor Ken Watanabe dedicated to the reconstruction efforts of an area hit by the massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 will close Sunday, nearly 15 years since the disaster ...

According to a study published in the journal Science, researchers can now explain why the earthquake off the Japanese coast ...

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant shares the same operator as the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. Read more at ...

Geological stresses in the subsurface south of the Turkish city of Istanbul are continuing to rise, increasing the risk of a ...