Japan is frequently hit by earthquakes due to its location along the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. Experts at the meteorological agency met late Monday ...

The earthquake occurred along the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, the same fault line that produced one of the strongest quakes to ever hit the East Coast. The magnitude 5.8 quake in central ...

"Very, very slight earthquakes. I usually associate with what, we geologists, refer to as a large growth faults and this area was a large basin, lots of sediment and that sediment moves every once ...

Kyushu is the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. Japan sits along the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. The country has about 1,500 earthquakes each ...

More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor to an eruption among the several scenarios being considered, the Icelandic ...

TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological ...

The frequent subduction of plates not only causes earthquakes but also triggers underwater fault movements that can displace large volumes of water, causing tsunamis. Japan’s location along the ...

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Southern Japan was hit by a strong earthquake on Monday that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year.