AAP FACTCHECK - Dramatic videos on social media showing tsunami waves hitting Japan after a recent magnitude 7.5 earthquake off the coast are actually years old.  The clips have spread on social media ...

New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...

The earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and led to the Fukushima nuclear shutdown was amplified by a soft layer of slippery clay, according to a new study. The layer is only around ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March of 2011. March 11, 2011 – At 2:46 p.m., a 9.1 magnitude earthquake takes place 231 miles northeast of Tokyo at a depth of ...

In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and ...