A possible magnitude-nine earthquake along the Nankai Trough, a submarine trough near the South of Japan, may lead to up to 298,000 deaths and a loss of up to 270 trillion yen (S$2.43 trillion ...

Japanese cancel holiday and travel plans over "Nostradamus" and "Baba Manga" predictions in Ryo Tatsuki's The Future I Saw ...

The first reports(1,2) on a slow earthquake were for an event in the Izu peninsula, Japan, on an intraplate, seismically active fault. Since then, many slow earthquakes have been detected(3-8). It has ...

What does that mean for "The Big One?" That's what many call a catastrophic earthquake that's expected in the not-too-distant future when the Juan de Fuca plate slips beneath the North American ...

While experts have issued caution over the warning, Japan is positioned on the Pacific Ring of Fire, and also has the Nankai Trough meaning it is more susceptible to large earthquakes and tsunamis.

The innovation is considered a strategic breakthrough in geological disaster mitigation, particularly in addressing the threat of potential megathrust earthquakes. Professor Kuwat Triyana explained ...

When subduction zones get stuck and then suddenly slip, it can cause a huge earthquake. These kinds of earthquakes happen along special cracks called megathrust faults. Scientists know that in this ...

SAN FRANCISCO – An earthquake shook parts of the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported about ...

Residents in communities north of San Francisco reported feeling light shaking when the earthquake struck.