TOKYO: Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, ...

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

Japan has approved a new disaster plan. This plan aims to reduce deaths and damage from a potential Nankai Trough megaquake.

The nation’s top earthquake expert has dismissed claims circulating online that the recent chain of intense seismic activity ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course ...

A new damage estimate released in March of this year said the Nankai Trough megaquake could in the worst-case scenario kill 298,000 people and destroy 2.35 million buildings.

Japan is bolstering its earthquake defenses following increased seismic activity near the Tokara Islands, raising concerns ...

A Japan Meteorological Agency panel says no noticeable seismic activity has been observed in areas where a Nankai Trough ...

The Nankai Trough is a 700-kilometer long (435-mile) subduction zone, which refers to when tectonic plates slip beneath each other. Most of the world’s earthquakes and tsunamis are caused by ...

A highest-level warning for a Nankai Trough megaquake would prompt a government evacuation advisory for 670,000 people, but less than half of the affected municipalities are prepared, an Asahi ...