In 2013, a groundbreaking case made news in Japan when a court ordered a school to pay $1.8 million to the parents of four ...

THE Philippines sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire — the belt of tectonic activity around the Pacific Ocean where more than ...

The Cabinet Office has revised its guidelines on how companies and local governments should respond to emergency information ...

From Chile to Japan, let’s take a look at the top 10 most powerful earthquakes that shook the world: In 1960, Biobio, Chile, ...

Scientists in Russia have revealed the geological impact of an earthquake that struck Russia's far east and prompted tsunami ...

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck off the Okinawa province in southwestern Japan on Thursday. The earthquake ...

The latest jolt comes close on the heels of an 8.8-magnitude undersea quake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula earlier this ...

Torrential rain continued Thursday in the Hokuriku region on the Sea of Japan coast, with the weather agency warning of ...

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian region of Papua on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, but a ...

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck Russia on Saturday evening near Severokurilsk, following a series of seismic events in the ...

On July 30, a massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Russia's Far East in late July triggered tsunami warnings in Japan and around the ...