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.

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.

Earthquake of magnitude 6.0 strikes Japan’s Kyushu, the Japan Meteorological Agency said that the earthquake struck at 7.34 (local time) at a depth of 40km. The earthquake comes days after a ...

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 ...

TOKYO: Japan's economy could lose as much as US$1.81 trillion in the event of a long-anticipated megaquake off its Pacific coast, which could trigger devastating tsunamis, the collapse of hundreds of ...