Japan is facing the risk of a possible "megaquake" in the near future, following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that occurred off the southern coast on Thursday. If such a megaquake were to occur, it ...

Japan's 2011 megaquake left a scar at the bottom of the sea. Scientists finally explored it. A towering cliff in the Japan Trench of the Pacific Ocean “is unlike anything that’s been observed ...

The most likely location for a megaquake in Japan is along the Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast, where the government panel said there was now more than 80 ...

The central government decided on Nov. 8 that in the event of a huge earthquake along the Japan Trench or the Chishima Trench, it will issue an alert warning of the potential for follow-up ...

An earthquake struck the Noto peninsula at around 4:10 p.m., local time, and had a magnitude of 7.6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. According to the ...

The unknown snailfish species, of the genus Pseudoliparis, was recorded swimming in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench near Japan at a depth of 8,336 meters — or more than 27,000 feet down.

Japan Meteorological Agency The Nankai Trough forms a trench-like topography on the seabed where the Philippine Sea Plate, the oceanic plate, and the Eurasian Plate, the land plate, meet.