Jaco Cilliers, the special representative of the U.N. Development Program, predicting that work to remove rubble in war-torn Gaza will take more than five years.

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

WHILE Congress is still working on a measure to overhaul the Philippine Building Code (PBC), two lawmakers have voiced support for the plan of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology ...

WHILE Congress is still working on a measure to overhaul the Philippine Building Code (PBC), two lawmakers have voiced support for the plan of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology ...

The Empress Emerita broke her right thigh bone in October last year, but has recovered to almost the same condition as before ...

Two fault lines on the west coast of North America—the Cascadia and San Andreas—appear to be seismically synchronized, with ...

As Cebu Province and Cebu City confront the realities of seismic vulnerability, local leaders are pushing for a multi-pronged approach to disaster preparedness --one that includes emergency “Go Bags”, ...

Neo Sora talks 'Happyend', his politically charged and socially resonant coming-of-age tale set in near-future Tokyo.

Fourteen years and seven months after a tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake swept her away, the family of ...

A senior United Nations official has expressed high hopes for Japan to play a major role in rebuilding the war-torn Gaza ...

During the 80th anniversary year of the end of World War II, former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama died at age 101, 30 ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. has announced that it will consider decommissioning the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture as part of ...