In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

Nearly 2,200 earthquakes strong enough to be felt by humans have recently struck around a southwestern Japanese island chain.

Over 60 residents from the islands of Akuseki and Kodakara in the Tokara chain have evacuated. They left in early July after ...

Five residents evacuated the island on July 9. Islanders who wished to evacuate, started doing so on July 4. 59 residents ...

It registered 9.0 on the Richter scale, which measures the magnitude of the earthquake. Shindo, Japan's seismic intensity scale, measures intensity at a specific location.

KAGOSHIMA--Sixteen evacuated residents of Akusekijima island boarded a ferry here on the evening of July 16 to return home ...

The largest tremors recorded since Saturday were two magnitude-5.1 quakes, one on Sunday and one on Tuesday. They had a seismic intensity of four on the Japanese scale — described as an ...

They had a seismic intensity of four on the Japanese scale – described as an earthquake in which “most people are startled”, dishes rattle and “hanging objects such as lamps swing ...

Residents of the Tokara Islands in the village of Toshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, began evacuating Friday morning following a powerful magnitude 5.5 earthquake that struck a day earlier, which ...

On Akusekijima Island, the tremor registered upper 5 on Japan's seismic intensity scale, which goes from 0 to 7. There has been a marked increase in seismic activity around the Tokara island chain ...

A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 rattled islands in south-western Japan on July 5, the latest in a series of tremblers that have prompted some residents to evacuate.