The 62-year-old was driven by a sense of responsibility for the pets being abandoned as “it came about because of the ...

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds ...

For the vast majority of Japanese, not handing in lost property would be 'unthinkable', one expert said Tokyo residents ...

An earthquake struck on the Sunshine Coast of B.C. on Friday afternoon, with shaking felt in various towns and cities across ...

A team of Japanese researchers has discovered that Japan's concrete structures—including buildings and infrastructure—absorb ...

The region generates about half of the earthquakes that can be felt in Tokyo. The researchers found that the rock material along this fault line is foliated, which means the minerals within the ...

This finding may also be useful for understanding the impact future earthquakes may have. The team of researchers from Tohoku University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Oita University ...

A magnitude-5.3 earthquake hit Tokyo and eastern parts of Japan on Friday evening, the government said, a day after it issued the first-ever advisory about the risk of a huge earthquake in the ...

On Sept. 1, 1923, Tokyo and Yokohama were engulfed by horrific fires spawned by the Great Kanto Earthquake. A century later, Japanese should ask themselves whether the nation’s capital ...