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

The death toll from Tuesday's earthquake in southern Japan has risen to 18, as the country's leader said rescuers face a ...

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 ...

Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan – an island nation that ...

A powerful earthquake hit southern Japan, seriously damaging a shopping mall where there are reportedly many people trapped ...

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

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 ...

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