Japan is facing a seismic crisis. Over 1,700 earthquakes have rocked the Tokara Islands, triggering evacuations and raising ...

Japan launches worlds first underwater earthquake early warning system with 6,000 km of fiber optics Japan unveils pioneering fiber optic network for seismic safety and disaster preparedness ...

Amid widespread strikes and resignations, Japan’s nurses demand better conditions and fight to sustain a strained healthcare ...

Japan's weather agency said Wednesday that data from an offshore tsunami gauge in the Pacific Ocean is currently unavailable, ...

KAGOSHIMA--Sixteen evacuated residents of Akusekijima island boarded a ferry here on the evening of July 16 to return home ...

The massive blaze has already scorched 8,925 acres and remains completely uncontained, with firefighters struggling to gain ...

Rural hospitals have been closing, putting emergency care further out of reach, but that’s only one of the heightened ...

Icelandic authorities now say threats of wildfires have officials on "high" alert and that eruption fissures were bigger than scientists initially thought after Wednesday's eruption of the once-dorman ...

On July 16, 1945, and in the days and weeks that followed, newspapers in America missed what may well have been the scoop of the first half of the 20th century: The birth of the atomic bomb in the ...

2018 Former US president Barack Obama gives a passionate speech during the 16th annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in Johannesburg ...

The United States and Japan concluded a weeklong disaster-response exercise that simulated a magnitude 7 earthquake, the ...

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck south of Sand Point, Alaska Peninsula, prompting a tsunami warning from NOAA covering the ...