All inhabitants along the Pacific Ocean, from Russia to Japan to Hawaii and the West Coast, were on high alert yesterday, following an earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula. The 8.7-magnitude quake ...

A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday off Russia's remote Far East, sending tsunami waves crashing into Hawaii and Japan and sparking evacuations and warnings across the Pacific. Russia ...

A massive tsunami generated by a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck Japan's coast within 30 minutes. Waves as high as 130 feet spilled over seawalls. Within days, three nuclear reactors were disabled.

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded has struck Russia’s far east, an 8.8-magnitude tremor that caused tsunami waves in Japan, Alaska and Hawaii, and prompted warnings for North and Central ...

TOKYO (AP) — One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s sparsely populated Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast. Several ...

Human remains found in Japan have been identified as those of a 6-year-old girl missing since the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011, police said Friday. The disaster killed 15,900 people, with ...

Today’s set of earthquakes follow a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan’s Iwate Prefecture at 5:03 p.m. local time on Sunday that prompted a tsunami warning. Since then, at ...