Emergency workers attempting to rescue survivors after a recent earthquake in Kyushu, Japan, also had to cope with extreme summer heat.

The Kumamoto prefectural government said at least 34 people were killed in the powerful earthquake that hit southwestern Japan earlier this week.

A powerful earthquake hit southern Japan, seriously damaging a shopping mall where there are reportedly many people trapped and some dead.

At least 14 people died after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said “every second counts” as thousands of military ...

Many of the roughly 58,000 households in Yatsushiro, southern Japan, were still without running water or power two days after the quake hit.

The earthquake caused dozens of injuries, according to Japanese media. At a shopping mall, people were trapped after an explosion.

Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan, which sits on the boundary of four tectonic plates.

Multiple people were missing a day after a magnitude-7.1 quake struck Kumamoto prefecture, partially collapsing buildings, including a shopping mall and a paper mill.

Nearly 20% of global earthquakes measuring 6.0 or higher occur in Japan. Since 2011, when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns at three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

A massive explosion ripped through Aeon Mall in Kumamoto just weeks after its grand reopening, leaving up to 30 employees unaccounted for.

There are also cases of earthquake clusters caused by induced seismicity — earthquakes and tremors triggered by human activity that alters the stresses and strains in Earth's crust, according to ...

As the climate changes, the impact of any disaster will increasingly depend not only on the primary event but also on the ...