It’s notorious for its megathrust earthquakes, powerful seismic events that occur where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another, releasing colossal quantities of energy. If the Nankai ...

About 20,000 people were killed. Then there’s the looming threat of the Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake – the most powerful of its kind, with magnitudes that can exceed 9. Seismologists ...

Experts warn that an earthquake between two tectonic plates that converge along the Nankai megathrust fault, which runs from Kyushu north through Tokyo, could cause devastation. It could ...

At the interface of these two plates is a massive fault zone called the Nankai megathrust, which hosts earthquakes of magnitude 8 or greater every 100 to 150 years. The most recent such quake ...

Earthquake preparedness has drawn renewed ... According to Mr Daryono, the concerns of Japanese scientists about the Nankai Megathrust are identical to those of Indonesian scientists for the ...

Japan is highly vulnerable to megathrust earthquakes, particularly along the Nankai Trough. This 800-kilometer-long underwater trench, extending from Shizuoka west of Tokyo to Kyushu Island, is a ...

and the general public in Japan about the potential for a major earthquake in the Nankai Megathrust zone. "These events are the right moment to remind Indonesians about the earthquake potential in the ...