The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Fukushima Prefecture's Aizu region early Thursday and the Japan Meteorological Agency has ...

A moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale hit Minahassa Peninsula in Sulawesi, Indonesia, last night, with its tremors also felt in three districts in Sabah, namely Semporna, ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Myanmar in the early hours of Friday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to NCS, the magnitude 4.8 earthquake ...

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake shook the Qasr-e Shirin city at 04:32 a.m. local time at a depth of 8 km, according to the Iranian Seismological Center. The epicenter of the quake was located at 45.44 ...

The Director General of Crisis Management of Bushehr province told local Iranian media on Friday night that, "The 4.7-magnitude earthquake in the city of Riz, which is located in Jam County in the ...

The United States Geological Survey confirms an earthquake happened in New Jersey Friday afternoon. The magnitude 2.4 earthquake was centered near Paramus, according to the USGS, and occurred ...

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget sent this document to government agencies listing about 2,600 programs that were under review.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nigeria’s leading telecommunication services provider MTN, and advanced weather intelligence ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency will start releasing forecast information about linear rainbands, called “senjo kosuitai,” from June that could give the public major flooding warnings. “ ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...