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

They focused on mountain belts in Japan, Borneo ... These variations reveal ancient plate fragments buried deep within the Earth, some of which date back as far as 300 million years.

Tokyo: A massive earthquake and tsunami along Japan’s Nankai Trough could result in up to 298,000 deaths and economic losses of $2 trillion, according to new government projections released Monday. Th ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that ... volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's ...

Japan sees about an 80 per cent chance of a magnitude 8 to 9 earthquake along a seabed zone known as the Nankai Trough.

Earthquake of magnitude 6.0 strikes Japan’s Kyushu, the Japan Meteorological Agency said that the earthquake struck at 7.34 ...

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.