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Japan could face an unprecedented disaster, with predictions warning of up to 300,000 deaths and massive material damage ...

EXCLUSIVE: Japan's next 'big one' earthquake could kill almost 300,000 people, do £1.4trillion worth of damage to the country ...

In recent days, a concerning rumor has been circulating online, claiming that a major earthquake and tsunami will strike Tokyo today. In response, the Japanese government has issued a strong rebuttal, ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

The recent discussions around earthquake predictions have been dominated by two prominent figures: Ryukyu Reito and Kimura Yasuhiro. Ryukyu Reito’s ProphecyRyukyu Reito, a manga artist known for his ...

The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

Monday marks nine years since the first major tremor in a series of earthquakes that struck Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern ...

Japan lies along the circum-Pacific seismic belt, better known as the "Ring of Fire," located along the outer edges of the Pacific Ocean, where about 81 percent of the largest earthquakes in the ...

Amidst a year already marked by devastating natural disasters, a chilling prediction from Japan's Ryo Tatsuki, dubbed the ...