New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden weakness beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s catastrophic 2011 ...

Japan’s meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert for Japan’s Pacific coast, upgrading an earlier advisory stemming from ...

Tsunamis don’t look the way we picture them. Most people, if they imagined one coming, would picture a towering wall of dark water. The reality is stranger and, in some ways, more terrifying: a ...

For many people in Japan, the country’s regular tremors are not a big deal. Officials are urging them to prepare for the next catastrophic quake. By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from ...

Tsunami waves hit Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast on Wednesday after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's ...

The Japanese government has warned of a slightly heightened risk of a megaquake in the next week after a strong 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the country’s northeastern coast on Monday, ...