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

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

Authorities are warning of more earthquakes around the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. 1,900 ...

TOKYO -- A record 740 earthquakes have been recorded off the coast of the Tokara island chain in southwest Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture in the last 10 days, the weather agency announced July 1.

The Tokara Islands in southern Japan have experienced a wave of more than 1,200 earthquakes since late June, with some ...

Following a series of earthquakes off the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, a ferry carrying five evacuees left ...

Following a series of ominous rumblings, the volcanic island of Miyakejima in the Izu island chain spat a huge plume of smoke ...

Japan pressed forward with the evacuation of residents living across the southwestern Tokara Island chain as a series of ...

There have been no reports of damage however authorities have advised residents to prepare to move to safety if needed.

A remote island chain in southern Japan has been rattled by more than 470 earthquakes since Saturday, the national weather agency said on ...

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.

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck near the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture at 4:13 p.m. Thursday, according to the Meteorological Agency. Authorities said there was no risk of a tsunami and ...