In the 30 years before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, there were 72 such quakes ... with almost 19,000 dead or missing, and did enormous damage across a wide region, including the meltdownsat ...

Nine people are dead, at least 963 injured and dozens more trapped following a devastating earthquake in Taiwan. The up-to-date figures released by the National Fire Agency coincide with warnings ...

KOBE--Bereaved families commemorated the 29th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake ... The magnitude-7.3 earthquake left 6,434 people dead and 43,792 others injured. Three people are ...

More than 150 people are dead and hundreds more are injured after an earthquake struck Nepal early Saturday morning. The temblor occurred around midnight local time in the western region of ...

Japan intensified its scientific efforts to survey active faults and publicly disseminate seismic risk information in the aftermath of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that leveled parts of Kobe and ...

Japan on Jan. 17 marked 30 years since the Great Hanshin Earthquake, a devastating disaster that struck Kobe and other parts of southern Hyogo Prefecture, registering the maximum 7 on the Japanese ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake, followed by the tsunami and the nuclear accident, turned out to be an unprecedented catastrophe. In comparison with the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that struck ...