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 ...

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

More than 900 quakes in two weeks have rattled Japan’s Tokara Islands, sparking fears of stronger seismic activity among residents.

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.

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 ...

More than 2,000 earthquakes that can be felt by humans have recently struck around a southwestern Japanese island chain.

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 struck off Tokara islands in southern Japan today, the country''s weather agency said.