A strong, 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 11:44 a.m. Japan time about 71 miles northeast ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

In April 2025, the Main Marmara Fault below the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Türkiye experienced its largest earthquake in ...

Dan Buettner's iconic National Geographic cover story transformed our idea of what makes for a long, healthy life. It's now published online for the first time. OKINAWA, JAPANSquatting effortlessly on ...

The March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake is giving scientists a rare look into how some of the world's most dangerous fault ...

Officials said there is a chance that “a large-scale earthquake with a magnitude of 8 or higher could occur as a follow-up earthquake,” though they stressed this is a possibility rather than a forecas ...

On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt ...

After a 7.5-magnitude earthquake on Monday, Japanese officials issued a rare warning for a potentially even larger follow-up.

Noting the current turmoil caused by the exposure of flood control corruption scandals in our country, corroborated by recent disastrous flooding events, I cannot help but think how unfortunate it is ...

In the latest report prepared by a Japanese government earthquake task force, it was estimated that up to 298,000 people ...