Earthquakes can’t be predicted. But a manga artist’s dream of a July 5 'megaquake' has spooked some residents and travelers.

More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, leaving ...

TOKYO/HONG KONG -Viral rumours of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have taken the sheen off Japan’s ...

While the "Doomsday Quake" prophecy turned out to be unfounded, it serves as a reminder of Japan's ongoing vulnerability to ...

The viral rumours have created panic among tourists, with some airlines cancelling flights to Japanese cities due to low ...

Since June 21, as many as 1,031 earthquakes rattled the Tokara island chain south of the Kyushu region in Japan.

A series of earthquakes near Japan’s remote Tokara Islands over the past two weeks, along with a major eruption from a ...

A magnitude 5.4 temblor struck off the Tokara island chain on Saturday, the latest in a series of seismic events in the area.

A viral prophecy from Ryo Tatsuki’s 1999 manga has caused widespread panic across East Asia, as it predicted a “mega ...

Japan's weather agency said an earthquake that rattled small islands in the country's southwest on Saturday was in no way ...

Since June 21, the area has experienced as of early Monday what seismologists refer to as a swarm of 1,582 quakes.

Recent earthquakes are fueling rumors stemming from a comic-book prediction that a major disaster would befall the country ...