A study found that tectonic plates beneath the Chishima Trench are not slipping past each other but appear to be locked ...

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

Fair weather with breezy trades are in place across Guam and the southern CNMI but a shear line is dropping southward through ...

The 200-km Fukushima Coastal Trail takes hikers through some of the heaviest-hit areas of the earthquake, tsunami, and ...

Japan on Tuesday marked 14 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked the country's northeast and triggered a ...

At 2:46 p.m. on Tuesday, Japan observed a moment of silence to mark the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

In April 2024, “Milwaukee Independent” published a series of in-depth interviews, photo essays, and investigative reports that examined the enduring aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake .