BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted Volcano Islands, Japan at 1637 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a ...

A new video from Japan’s maritime authorities captures an underwater volcano bursting through the sea surface in a violent plume of ash, steam and rock, turning a patch of open ocean into a churning ...

Japan has paid a high diplomatic price for its territorial disputes with China and South Korea over uninhabited islets in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan. But Japan may get a freebie in the ...

Imagine waking up one morning to news that a massive volcanic eruption has shaken a remote region with absolutely no advance notice. This isn't science fiction. It's happening right now around the ...

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday. By Francesca Regalado A sparsely populated string of islands in ...

A new study, led by Professor Mike Kendall from the Department of Earth Sciences, has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption. The research team ...