The Nankai Trough, the border area between the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate, runs from the Tokai to Kyushu regions off the Pacific coast. According to the JMA, there is a 70- to 80 ...
Like the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, this is a type of earthquake that is of concern in the Nankai Trough. The plate shifted in ...
The Nankai Trough, where the Philippine Sea Plate is slipping under the Eurasia Plate at the bottom of the sea off the southwest coast of Japan, produces massive earthquakes about every 100-150 years.
A "megaquake" hitting Japan in the next 30 years could trigger 100-foot tsunamis and kill hundreds of thousands of people.