A new video from Japan’s maritime authorities captures an underwater volcano bursting through the sea surface in a violent ...

BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted Volcano Islands, Japan at 1637 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a ...

TOKYO (AP) — A volcano erupted on a small island in southern Japan on Friday, spewing black clouds of ash and rock towering into the sky and prompting authorities to tell residents to evacuate the ...

Rescuers have spotted wreckage believed to be from a sightseeing helicopter carrying three people that went missing near ...

Japan’s landscape has been shaped by some of the strongest forces on Earth — volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates and ...

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday. By Francesca Regalado A sparsely populated string of islands in ...

Japan has paid a high diplomatic price for its territorial disputes with China and South Korea over uninhabited islets in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan. But Japan may get a freebie in the ...

July 30 (UPI) --Several warnings were downgraded on Wednesday in various areas that faced the threat of tsunamis after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck near Russia late Tuesday. Tsunami warnings ...

A new study, led by Professor Mike Kendall from the Department of Earth Sciences, has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption. The research team ...