Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward after the 2011 earthquake.

The Tōhoku earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan in 2011 significantly shifted some parts of the country from their current place, a study has found. This is the first time that an earthquake ...

In 2011, Japan reeled from the effects of a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake. But unnoticed in the chaos resulting from the quake, its major aftershocks and the tsunami it caused, something ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Grant Faint/The Image Bank/Getty Images) When the magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake struck off the coast of Japan in 2011, its ...

Around 15 minutes after the magnitude-9 Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011, almost the whole of Japan jumped half a centimetre to the east. This lurch resulted from an immensely powerful seismic wave ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced seismic imaging, they found the Juan de Fuca plate splitting into fragments ...

From the rumble of volcanoes to cracks of thunder, Earth has always been noisy -- and that was before humans hit the scene. Separating noise from signal is a key task for many scientific fields, but ...