The magnitude-6.0 temblor that shook the Hawaiian islands Friday night caused power outages, major damage to homes and rockslides that temporarily blocked roadways in South Kona, where its epicenter ...

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Diners were alarmed as a magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked an airport in Japan today. Travellers were eating lunch inside the food court at Naha Airport in Okinawa when the tremor suddenly struck.

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In the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which devastated vast areas of northeastern Japan, tsunami-affected ...

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The quake struck off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture at 8:22 p.m. following an emergency earthquake warning for the region.

A high-risk operation to recover the bodies of four Italian divers from an underwater cave in the Maldives has been suspended ...

Japan’s earthquake planners divide the Nankai fault zone into named segments, each with its own rupture history and hazard clock. The eastern one, called Tokai, hasn’t broken in more than 170 years.

A powerful earthquake measuring magnitude 6.7 has struck off the coast of the Japanese region of Miyagi, north of Tokyo, ...

The divers became trapped in a sea cave at a depth of about 50 metres. A high-risk search for the bodies was suspended ...