They also caused significant damage in Hawaii. Japan’s biggest earthquake hit the country on March 11, 2011. The underwater quake hit around 80 miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan’s biggest island.

EXCLUSIVE: Japan's next 'big one' earthquake could kill almost 300,000 people, do £1.4trillion worth of damage to the country ...

The Great Tohoku Earthquake struck Japan on March 11 ... The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5. off the coast ...

Japan lies along the circum-Pacific seismic belt, better known as the "Ring of Fire," located along the outer edges of the Pacific Ocean, where about 81 percent of the largest earthquakes in the ...

The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.

The Foreign Ministry had asked local authorities to search for the individual, and the person's body was found at the site of ...

Japanese authorities say they have confirmed the death of a Japanese national who resided in Myanmar's second-largest city of ...