Mount Fuji erupted. The disaster came on the heels of the Great Hōei earthquake, whose tectonic activity compressed magma ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency says the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that jolted central Myanmar on Friday was caused by horizontal slips of land, called "strike-slip" faults.

TOKYO -- Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) did not include "complex disasters," a situation when nuclear accidents ...

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

The disasters struck a Japan already reeling economically. After decades as a powerhouse, it suffered a terrific crash of ...

The Japanese government has issued a contingency plan for a potential Mount Fuji eruption, to help the public prepare for the ...

An eruption of the iconic mountain could release 10 times the amount of debris generated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Mandatory evacuations were underway in Polk County, North Carolina, as firefighters battled three blazes. In South Carolina, ...

Around the time that Roki Sasaki made his long-awaited decision to sign with the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles was reeling ...