Located on the southern island of Kyushu, Miyazaki Prefecture sits between Oita’s renowned onsen towns to the north and Kagoshima, the region to the south noted for its famed black pork. While often ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

Tokyo: A strong earthquake with a preliminary ... Tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, where the quake was centered, in the southwestern island of Kyushu, as well as nearby ...

The region is located adjacent the Nankai Trough, an undersea fault line running off the coast of Shizuoka prefecture near Tokyo to Miyazaki prefecture further southwest.

TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has hit southwestern Japan, the country’s Meteorological ...

TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological ...

Japan's concerns over a potential U.S. retreat from the region have grown amid China's increasingly assertive military posture.

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.8. TOKYO and LONDON -- A ... Monday off the coast of Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological ...

The quake struck at a depth of 36 kilometres around 18 kilometres off the coast of Miyazaki prefecture in the Kyushi ... The capital Tokyo was devastated by a huge earthquake just over a century ...