There are currently nine evacuees from the Tokara Islands off Kagoshima Prefecture, including Akuseki Island, according to ...

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 ...

Some of the residents of the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture who had evacuated to Kagoshima City and other locations ...

Monday marks one month since seismic activity intensified in the sea around the Tokara island chain in southwestern Japan, ...

The detailed mechanism for the succession of earthquakes occurring off the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture since June 21 remains unclear.

Those living on the remote islands anxious and fearful of what might happen, and the national weather service has no idea when the quakes will end.

The “Tokara Theory” circulating online speculates that a series of recent earthquakes in Akusekijima and other Tokara islands will precede the long-anticipated Nankai Trough megaquake.

As of the morning of June 26, 474 such earthquakes had been observed around the Tokara island chain. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, keeping residents anxious and awake all night. Seismic activity has been "very ...

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 ...