A tsunami-like event that hit Peru’s northern coastline in late December, affecting Lobitos, Máncora and Cabo Blanco, may jeopardize the country’s recently renewed scallop export surge ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or ...

You've heard of lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes. Check out what a larger sea and bitter cold air helped to generate in ...

Eggs remain in short supply around Hawaiʻi and that's pushed prices higher. Across the Pacific, there's a shortage of a ...

The increased focus on foreign travelers follows the death of a Hong Kong woman on the outskirts of Otaru. The 61-year-old ...

It looks like another big wave at first, but as it gets closer, you can seeit's not just big. It's HUGE! It's a tsunami. Is surfing a tsunami even possible? And have people done this before? Watch the ...

Teikoku Databank, a research company that tracks historic changes in the cost of assembling a plate of Japan’s beloved curry rice, found that the cost of the dish hit an all-time high of ¥377 in ...

Tepco, Japan's biggest power company by sales ... world's worst nuclear disasters when the Fukushima plant was crippled by a ...

A sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a dump truck hole on Tuesday has now doubled in wide after combining with a second ...