For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...

JAKARTA, INDONESIA: A claim has been circulating on social media suggesting that the devastating 2004 tsunami that wrecked the Indian Ocean was not caused by a natural earthquake, but because of a ...

When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors ...

A History topped the charts on release and sparked a national conversation about the country’s past and future. In this ...

Dr Pamela Gower has shrewd blue eyes, a strong stomach and an incredibly niche occupation as a forensic odontologist.

It was 27 December 2004. I was sitting at my computer in my office in Jakarta, Indonesia, my mind busy with plans for the New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Dec. 29, 1908, as reports of a devastating earthquake-tsunami the day before took more than ...

Dec. 12 (UPI) --A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast on Friday, prompting officials to issue a tsunami advisory. The temblor hit at 11:44 a.m. JST off the eastern coast of ...

The 7.6-magnitude quake struck in waters off Aomori Prefecture on Japan’s main island, Honshu. It triggered a tsunami warning, which was later lifted. By Christine Hauser Hisako Ueno and Javier C.

TOKYO — A powerful 7. 6-magnitude earthquake struck late Monday off northern Japan, triggering a tsunami of up to 27 inches in Pacific coast communities and warnings of potentially higher surges, the ...

Japanese officials issued tsunami warnings and evacuation orders for the country’s northeast coast on Monday after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck 80 kilometers off the coast at 11:15 P.M. local ...