The country's rice consumption has more than halved over the past 60 years as diets have expanded to include more bread, noodles and other energy sources ...

Rice shortages driven by factors from poor harvests caused by hot weather to panic-buying over a "megaquake" warning last ...

The shakes have left the 'Big One' on many Greater Victorian minds – a megaquake on the boundary between the Juan de Fuca and ...

TOKYO (AFP) - The Japanese government said Friday it will release a fifth of its emergency rice stockpile after hot weather, poor harvests and panic buying over a "megaquake" warning nearly doubled ...

A “megaquake” alert in August and one of the fiercest typhoons in decades had dampened activity during the third quarter. Ahead of the latest GDP data, the Daiwa Institute of Research said ...

After a strong earthquake struck Delhi and its adjoining areas early this morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the residents to "stay calm and follow the safety precautions". Researchers ...

A magnitude 7.6 quake rattled the Caribbean Sea on Saturday about 130 miles (209 kilometers) off the coast of the Cayman Islands, triggering tsunami warnings that were later lifted, US monitoring ...

Foreign tourists stranded by a megaquake would be urged to make their way to Niigata and Matsumoto airports in central Japan for flights to their home countries. This is one of the options that ...

Japan, one of the most earthquake-prone nations on earth, issued its first-ever megaquake advisory last week after a powerful quake struck off the southeastern coast of the southern main island of ...

Defined as a major tremor occurring in 100- to 150-year cycles, a megaquake could surpass the damage from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeastern coast of the main ...

A megaquake in the Japan Trench would cause the most damage. If it occurred at night in the dead of winter, it would take longer for people to escape due to the accumulated snow. The death toll ...