Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward ...

Japan’s catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to “slip,” in some areas ...

A new study reveals the 2011 Tohoku earthquake triggered an extraordinary event deep within Earth. Seismic energy traveled to ...

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of ...

In a new study published in ‘Science’, seismic waves are likely considered the key triggering mechanism that bounced off ...

A Japan Self-Defense Forces officer smiles as he holds a four-month-old baby girl who was rescued along with her family members from their home in Ishimaki City, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, ...

Powerful 2011 Japan earthquake may have moved whole country further east - Findings point to previously unknown earthquake ...

NEW YORK, March 15, 2011 - In the wake of Japan's tragic Great Tohuku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster, Asia Society Global Council Member Kenneth S. Courtis outlined some of the bigger economic ...

More than a decade after one of the worst natural disasters of our time, people in Japan are still living under the threat of another disaster of this kind occurring in their country. A recent survey ...

Here's a look at the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March of 2011. March 11, 2011 - At 2:46pm, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake takes place 231 miles northeast of Tokyo at a depth of 15.2 miles ...

Before their World Cup quarterfinal in 2011, Japan’s female footballers were given a reminder of home. Except the photos produced by coach Norio Sasaki weren’t the sort you see on a postcard – fields ...

In 2011, Japan reeled from the effects of a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake. But unnoticed in the chaos resulting from the quake, its major aftershocks and the tsunami it caused, something ...