After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue ...

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 says the powerful earthquake that hit southwestern Japan earlier this week has now killed at least 23 people.

The Aeon Mall outlet in Kumamoto partially collapsed after the large earthquake with the retailer reporting an explosion.

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

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

Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people, ...

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 ...

Thousands of survivors of a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan have spent Friday in crowded shelters or sleeping in cars as they face shortages of water and fuel and punishing summer ...

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck southwestern Japan has risen to at least 18, as soldiers and rescue workers continued searching for people trapped in a badly damaged shopping ...

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.

Pets seem to have a natural “sixth sense” for sensing disaster before humans do. Footage of a pet cat, via ABC News, seemed to prove this when a pet camera recorded a cat suddenly leaping off a bed ...