Cornell-led researchers drilled 7 km deep into the Japan Trench to study the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, ...

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

Nankai Trough quakes occur every 100 to 200 years along the plate boundary on Japan's Pacific coast. A member of the JMA's expert panel says research has confirmed that a major earthquake can ...

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.

A strong earthquake that struck southwestern Japan early Jan. 22 without ... is expected to strike along the boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate. But the Jan. 22 temblor ...