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

The advice given when there’s a long and strong earthquake is to “get gone” because of the potential tsunami risk, but would ...

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

The government is spending almost a million dollars on researching earthquake and volcanic disaster resilience in ...

A town that hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is being swept up in Japan's tourism boom, with visitors from China and other countries eager to see areas impacted by the 2011 ...

The Japanese government plans to study ways to provide disaster preparedness education drawing on lessons learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

When trying to improve, refine, and seek more efficiency in disaster management measures, predicting the extent of disaster ...

While Japan itself has been sipping less matcha over the years, the rest of the world can’t get enough. According to Japan’s ...

Forest fires have been spreading since Wednesday in the coastal city of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan ... map shows that all these communities were devastated by a tsunami ...

About 15 kilometers from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., this neighborhood was ...