A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In light of the recent tsunami and earthquake news – re: the 8.8-magnitude tremor that struck off the Russian coast, sending ...

Over 20 powerful <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/japan-braces-16ft-tsunami-after-struck-powerful-earthquakes-waves-wajima-2024-1">earthquakes hit Japan's</a ...

Researchers onboard the deep sea scientific drilling vessel Chikyu sailed to the Japan Trench to drill up to 7,906 metres beneath the seafloor. Credit: JAMSTEC/IODP. A thin, soft and slippery layer of ...

New research from MIT reveals that earthquakes can reverse direction, striking the same area twice, a phenomenon now termed ...

At 2:46 p.m. Tokyo time, Japan was hit with what early news reports are calling the most powerful earthquake in a century. An 8.9 magnitude quake occurring about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo set off ...