What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a theory.

Land topography is usually formed gradually over long periods of time, but sometimes a single event can dramatically change things. On New Year's Day in 2024, a devastating earthquake in the Noto ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

The vast majority of earthquakes strike inside the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and tectonic activity that wraps ...

Santorini's earthquakes are intensifying as a rare earthquake swarm continues to rattle the Mediterranean's Aegean Sea. The ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that killed over 6,400 ... coast where the Eurasian and Philippine Sea tectonic ...

Geologists don't have a crystal ball that can foresee future earthquakes, but seismic specialists in the Japanese government believe that the odds of a big one are creeping upwards. According to Japan ...

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast ...

The Earthquake Research Committee ... undersea gully running parallel to Japan's Pacific coast. The trench is where the Philippine Sea oceanic tectonic plate is "subducting" — or slowly slipping ...

a victim of the magnitude-9.0 quake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan in March 2011. "The Great Hanshin Earthquake is the starting point of Japan's earthquake disasters, as the know-how ...