According to a recent estimate, if a magnitude-9 quake hits the Japan Trench in winter late at night, some 199,000 people would die. If it occurs in the Chishima Trench, it projected that 100,000 ...

The Japan Trench is a major quake-making machine ... “I carefully read topography from the map and selected the most probable point where the fault features could exist.” ...

When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake. All times above are Japan time. Shake data is as of ...

This map shows how parts of Japan could be impacted by a tsunami ... This schematic diagram shows the Nankai Trough, which forms a trench-like topography on the seabed where the Philippine ...

T he Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is known for its extreme depth—stretching 5 miles ...

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 ...

On the same trip, researchers collected two snailfish from traps in the Japan Trench at a depth of 8,022 meters, which they believe to be the only fish caught deeper than eight kilometers.

SYDNEY: Scientists have broken the record for the deepest fish ever caught, as well as the deepest fish ever filmed on camera. Two snailfish were caught in traps set 8,022m underwater in the Japan ...