In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

An evacuation has begun as tremors intensify in and around Japan's southern islands of Toshima village, Kagoshima Prefecture.

Earthquakes can’t be predicted. But a manga artist’s dream of a July 5 'megaquake' has spooked some residents and travelers.

July 3 (UPI) --An island chain in southwest Japan was shaken by an earthquake on Thursday after over 1,000 tremors throughout two weeks. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the Tokara island chain ...

Japan Urges Small Island Residents To Evacuate As 1,000 Quakes Hit Area Residents were urged to evacuate to "a school playground in Akuseki Island", says official. Agence France-Presse World News ...

Tokara Islands are a remote chain of twelve islands which are found in south-western Japan. Seven of the twelve Islands are inhabited, with around 700 residents living there in total.

I should think about whether to evacuate my kids.” The Tokara Islands are the150km chain of 12 small islands and out of the total seven are inhabited. Only 700 people live on the remote islands.

About 700 people live on seven of the 12 Tokara islands. There are no hospitals on some of these far-flung islands - the nearest is at least six hours by ferry to the prefectural capital, Kagoshima.

More than 1,300 earthquakes have hit Japan’s Tokara Islands in two weeks, prompting evacuations of dozens of residents from the remote archipelago on the country’s southern tip. Although no ...

Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, given its location within the Pacific Ring of Fire, a 25,000-mile-long belt of seismic and volcanic hot spots that loops around ...