A strong earthquake that struck southwestern Japan early Jan. 22 without causing major damage was deemed unlikely to trigger a long-feared offshore megaquake in the Nankai Trough facing the ...

Japan has issued a strong warning of an impending megaquake in the Nankai Trough. An imminent megaquake ... where the Philippine Sea Plate is thrust beneath the Eurasian Plate, is one of the ...

A highest-level warning for a Nankai Trough megaquake would prompt a government evacuation advisory for 670,000 people, but less than half of the affected municipalities are prepared, an Asahi ...

And what action should people take? The advisory is a precautionary measure to prepare for a possible mega-quake around the Nankai Trough, which runs along Japan's Pacific coast. The agency says ...

The advisory is part of a precautionary measure being taken against a possible mega-quake occurring around the Nankai Trough, which runs along the Pacific coast. The agency says the possibility of ...

A government panel of experts in January said there was an “around 80 per cent” chance of an earthquake of magnitude 8-9 occurring in the Nankai Trough over the next 30 years, slightly higher ...

On a clear spring morning southwest of Tokyo, a train glides along the Izu Kyuko Line, tracing the eastern coast of the scenic Izu Peninsula. Passengers, many of them tourists, lift their ...

TOKYO, August 8. /TASS/. The probability of a powerful earthquake occurring in the Nankai Trough in Japan has temporarily increased following the quake that hit off the coast of the southwestern ...

Within the next 30 years, the southwest coast of Japan is expected to be hit by a magnitude 8–9 earthquake and tsunami originating in the Nankai Trough, a seafloor depression where the ...