More than 80% of people in Japan believe a disaster on the scale of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake could occur in the foreseeable future, but nearly 70% say they have not taken sufficient ...

Tokyo has predicted an 80 per cent chance of a magnitude-9 quake in the next 30 years that could cause 300,000 deaths In ...

A look back at 60 Minutes' reporting on the deadly 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami which killed nearly 20,000.

In reconstruction efforts following the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck 15 years ago, Japan has poured some 42 ...

Japan marks 15 years since the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. Despite the passage of time, some people have continued to search for the remains of missing family members.

Japan is marking the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast as the ...

Fifteen years ago, the world watched in horror as Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in its recorded history — ...

Japan is on alert after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck its northern regions late on Monday, prompting tsunami warnings and a rare government advisory about the possibility of a “megaquake” over the ...

After a 7.5-magnitude earthquake on Monday, Japanese officials issued a rare warning for a potentially even larger follow-up.

Japan has recorded a series of powerful aftershocks in the past several hours, including a magnitude 5.7 earthquake near the east coast of Honshu and a 4.9 earthquake in the Hokkaido region shortly ...

(The Center Square) - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake centered in the Pacific Ocean some 45 miles west of Misawa, Japan, shook the northern region of the archipelago around 11:26 p.m. local time. Japan's ...

That expedition used Japan's ultra-advanced drilling ship Chikyū, and marked the first time scientists had ever drilled directly into the fault zone of a recent megathrust earthquake. They drilled ...