The most likely location for a megaquake in Japan is along the Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast, where the government panel said there was now more than 80 ...

The estimate was made for a magnitude-9.1 earthquake in the Japan Trench, which stretches from off Tohoku to off Hidaka in Hokkaido, and a magnitude-9.3 earthquake in the Chishima Trench ...

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast ...

The central government projects that a magnitude-9.1 megaquake would cause as many as 199,000 fatalities if one struck late at night in winter in the Japan Trench, part of the Pacific Rim of Fire ...

A tsunami warning has been issued for a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Hyuga-Nada Sea off the coast of Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The drilling expedition—officially known as the Tracking Tsunamigenic Slip Across the Japan Trench (JTRACK) project of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IOPD)—followed a similar ...

The panel explains that these areas have high probabilities because massive earthquakes centering in the Chishima Trench, Japan Trench and the Nankai Trough have been occurring at intervals of a ...