The government was urged to amend a special law enacted in 2004 to prepare the public for a megaquake in either the Japan Trench that is part of the Pacific Rim of Fire off northeastern Japan or ...

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 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 ...