It’s notorious for its megathrust earthquakes, powerful seismic events that occur where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another, releasing colossal quantities of energy. If the Nankai ...

About 20,000 people were killed. Then there’s the looming threat of the Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake – the most powerful of its kind, with magnitudes that can exceed 9. Seismologists ...

Experts warn that an earthquake between two tectonic plates that converge along the Nankai megathrust fault, which runs from Kyushu north through Tokyo, could cause devastation. It could ...

The advisory, which is officially called “megathrust earthquake attention ... the agency reiterated its alarming estimate that a Nankai Trough earthquake has a “70-80 percent chance ...

Earthquake preparedness has drawn renewed ... According to Mr Daryono, the concerns of Japanese scientists about the Nankai Megathrust are identical to those of Indonesian scientists for the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio canceled plans to travel to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia following an unprecedented earthquake warning from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

At the interface of these two plates is a massive fault zone called the Nankai megathrust, which hosts earthquakes of magnitude 8 or greater every 100 to 150 years. The most recent such quake ...