The plate boundary has a history of huge earthquakes occurring in pairs. The JMA expert panel issues a megaquake alert or advisory, or concludes its analysis, based on the Nankai Trough ...

The Cabinet Office released on March 31 slightly lower death and disaster projections from an expected Nankai Trough megaquake ... the potentially devastating earthquake, with an 80 percent ...

Abstract: We present a 2-D thermomechanical computational framework for simulating earthquake sequences in a non-linear visco-elasto-plastic compressible medium. The method is developed for a ...

Specifically, the Nankai Trough, located just off Japan’s southern coast, has long been identified as a potential source of future megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis. Though there’s no ...

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Istanbul on Wednesday leading to scenes of panic in the Turkish metropolis, officials said. The quake occurred in the Sea of Marmara close to ...

The ground beneath Istanbul trembled at 12:49pm (09:49 GMT) on Wednesday, sending millions scrambling into the streets as a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck in the sea off the city’s western coast.

More than 150 people have been injured after a powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook Istanbul, one of the strongest to strike the city in recent years, Turkish officials have said. There were no ...

The San Jose Earthquakes have acquired midfielder Noel Buck in a trade from the New England Revolution. The 20-year-old moves to Northern California in exchange for $600,000 cash, plus an additional ...

The earthquake in Istanbul hit on a public holiday when children were out of school and more residents than usual were home from work Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE.

An earthquake preliminarily measured at magnitude 6.2 shook Istanbul and other neighbouring cities and provinces in northwestern Turkey on Wednesday. There were no reports of fatalities or serious ...