Officials in western Japan have held large-scale disaster drills ahead of the UN-designated World Tsunami Awareness Day on ...

TOKYO--Japan has issued a tsunami advisory to residents of Izu and Ogasawara islands after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 occurred in the Pacific Ocean near unpopulated ...

World Tsunami Awareness Day is celebrated every year on November 5 to boost people's understanding of the harmful effects of ...

Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan were urged to evacuate on Saturday as authorities warned of landslides and floods, ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it survived a massive ...

A massive earthquake of 7.6 magnitude hit Japan today triggering a tsunami warning. According to media report, Japan Meteorological Agency has issued tsunami warnings for the coastal prefectures of ...

The Japanese people named the tsunami using two characters: tsu, meaning "harbour," and nami, meaning "wave." The term ...

The world is more prepared than ever for a devastating tsunami thanks to early warning systems, ocean science experts said ...

according to the US Tsunami Warning System and the Philippine seismological agency. Earthquakes regularly strike the ...

In the aftermath of the Fukushima meltdown, Japan decommissioned all 54 of its commercial nuclear reactors for safety reassessments and upgrades. Now, 13 out of the 33 viable reactors have been ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor with an upgraded anti-tsunami wall was set to restart Tuesday in a region near the crippled ...

In this way, an early warning concerning communities being prepared ... On November 5, 1854, a huge earthquake of 8.4 ...