The potential impact of the Nankai Trough earthquake has long been a concern for Japan, and recent reports from the Japanese government's expert group shed light on its anticipated effects. On March ...

Tokyo: A massive earthquake and tsunami along Japan’s Nankai Trough could result in up to 298,000 deaths and economic losses ...

A newly released Japanese government report has heightened fears of a catastrophic megaquake that could cause massive ...

The government is spending almost a million dollars on researching earthquake and volcanic disaster resilience in collaboration with scientists in Japan ...

the researchers are planning to examine data from seismometers placed on the ocean floor in offshore Japan to probe into more rocks along the plate interface of the Japan subduction zone.

Schematic figure of the subduction zone underneath the Kanto region (left) in Japan and the spatial distribution of magnitude 2 to 6 earthquakes on the subduction zone at 60 to 70 kilometers below ...

Conducted by researchers from Ocean University of China and Tohoku University, Japan ... conventional models of subduction-driven circulation. The Tonga Subduction Zone, characterized by the ...