Seismology experts are urging people in Kumamoto Prefecture to remain vigilant against additional powerful earthquakes in the ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has hit southern Japan, injuring dozens of people, trapping people inside a shopping centre and ...

Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan, which sits on the boundary ...

Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped ...

Japan has long been one of the planet’s most popular travel destinations, but its position on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a 40,000km stretch of tectonic plate boundaries which loop the ocean in the ...

An earthquake measuring magnitude 7.1 and rated as a possible level seven on Japan's own Shindo 'scale of shaking' - the ...

Multiple people were missing a day after a magnitude-7.1 quake struck Kumamoto prefecture, partially collapsing buildings, ...

Many people” were trapped inside a shopping mall damaged in a major earthquake Tuesday in southwestern Japan, emergency services said.

A major earthquake in Japan's southwest killed at least 13 people and left several injured or missing after a shopping center ...

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan's Kyushu island on Tuesday, causing significant structural damage, including the ...

Aeon Mall's president tells a news conference a further three people are missing while rescue workers sift through the rubble ...

Japan's south-western Kyushu island has been struck by two strong earthquakes within an hour, sparking warnings of a tsunami wave of up to 1 metre.