New report says a magnitude 9 tremor in the Nankai Trough has potential for damage equivalent to half of annual GDP ...

Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, ...

On this anniversary, Japan is slowly rebuilding ... Toni, Iwate Prefecture: The tsunami wall was not enough to hold back the wave that hit these homes. Even the homes high on the hill (in the top left ...

However, on March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake unleashed a devastating tsunami that irrevocably altered the landscape and the hotel’s fate. The tsunami, with waves reaching heights ...

Along the coast of Japan’s Iwate prefecture, where a tsunami swept away entire communities on March 11, 2011, a single tree remains as a symbol of endurance. Known as the Miracle Pine ...

TOKYO -- Families of people killed in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami visited beaches and memorial cenotaphs in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region on Tuesday to pray for the souls of the ...

Caribe Wave is an annual tsunami preparedness exercise set up by the United Nations and overseen by IOC-UNESCO. The date and time of the simulation are not a random choice: it is the anniversary of ...

According to the study, species from Japan continued to show up, alive, along the West Coast of the U.S. six years after the tsunami, which was four or more years longer than previously documented ...

The "Miracle Pine," the only tree that survived in a coastal forest flattened by the deadly tsunami in March 2011 in northeastern Japan, is pictured in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 11 ...

However, life is not yet back to normal for nearly 1,200 residents of the northeastern coastal city of Japan, who have been ... after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the city on March ...

residents and visitors should stay out of the water and away from tsunami hazard zones until public safety officials have deemed it safe to return. The first wave may not be the last or the ...