A long-expected megaquake could kill up to 300,000 people and set off destructive tsunamis in Japan. A new report from the Japanese government warns that a powerful earthquake in the Nankai Trough, ...

The Nankai Trough has a history of producing megathrust earthquakes and is being closely monitored due to the risk it poses. A megaquake, defined as an earthquake with a magnitude of 8 or greater ...

JAKARTA, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia, ranked among top 35 countries for natural disaster risk, is actively preparing for potential megathrust earthquakes that could trigger devastating tsunamis.

This episode explores Japan’s seismic innovations, documenting survivors, engineers and global efforts to protect lives and ...

Kuroshio is at risk of experiencing a massive tsunami more than 30 meters high when the anticipated Nankai megathrust earthquake hits. “In Kuroshio, instead of preventing the effects of the ...

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 ...

Ryo Tatsuki, a Japanese prophet known for her eerie accuracy, has predicted a catastrophic mega-tsunami set to hit Japan and parts of Asia in July 202 ...

Japanese authorities calculated the number of people who would lose their lives if a hypothetical ‘megathrust earthquake’ were to occur in the Nankai Trough, one of the oceanic trenches with ...

There were nine such earthquakes between the 684 Nankai/Tōnankai earthquake (also called the Hakuhō earthquake, after the name of the historical period during which it took place) and the 1946 ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Up to 298,000 people are expected to be killed in Japan due mainly to a tsunami and building collapses if an earthquake of around magnitude 9 occurs in the Nankai Trough off ...

The drill is named after the Nankai Trough, a fault line prone to creating devastating megathrust earthquakes along the main island of Japan’s heavily populated southern coast. While it has been ...