The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.

A newly released Japanese government report warns that a long-feared massive earthquake in the nation’s Nankai Trough could ...

After a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar and an 8.2 magnitude earthquake in Thailand, Bangladesh also felt a 4.5 magnitude ...

The NHK survey highlighted that many municipalities across Japan are ill-equipped with disaster recovery resources. Out of 134 municipalities surveyed, a striking majority reported a deficiency in ...

The Japanese government has warned of catastrophic economic damage and nearly 300,000 deaths when the next "megaquake" hits the archipelagic nation, according to a new estimation released on Monday.

Japan warns of a catastrophic megaquake along the Nankai Trough, with the potential to trigger massive tsunamis, destroy ...

The survey comes after Japan's government estimated that up to 298,000 people could die from a megaquake along the Nankai ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Japan's Kyushu on Wednesday at 7:34 pm (IST), the National Center ...

One focus will be on strengthening essential services affected by recent disasters, such as the Noto Peninsula earthquake ...

Over the past 1,400 years, megaquakes in the Nankai Trough have struck every 100 to 200 years, with the most recent occurring ...

In a related development, a day after the tremor, the Japanese government released updated estimates concerning the potential impact of a major earthquake originating from the Nankai Trough. This ...

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 ...