According to a recent estimate, if a magnitude-9 quake hits the Japan Trench in winter late at night, some 199,000 people would die. If it occurs in the Chishima Trench, it projected that 100,000 ...

T he Japan Trench, a vast tectonic chasm along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is known for its extreme depth—stretching 5 miles below the ocean’s surface.Until now, this deep-sea environment has ...

Within the next 30 years, the southwest coast of Japan is expected to be hit by a magnitude 8–9 earthquake and tsunami originating in the Nankai Trough, a seafloor depression where the ...

The government was urged to amend a special law enacted in 2004 to prepare the public for a megaquake in either the Japan Trench that is part of the Pacific Rim of Fire off northeastern Japan or ...

The panel explains that these areas have high probabilities because massive earthquakes centering in the Chishima Trench, Japan Trench and the Nankai Trough have been occurring at intervals of a ...