A powerful earthquake and tsunami predicted to occur in the Nankai Trough off the Pacific coast of Japan in the near future ...

Measures include fortifying homes and fire safety installations, as well as building more embankments and emergency shelters ...

A massive earthquake predicted to occur in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years could cause 1,466 trillion yen ($10 ...

Tokyo, June 11 (Jiji Press)--A powerful earthquake and tsunami predicted to occur in the Nankai Trough off the Pacific coast ...

prompting it to issue a tsunami alert as well as its first-ever warning for a “megaquake” from a nearby submarine trough that is a hotbed of geological tension. Although the expected height of ...

Meteorologists gathered and issued a temporary tsunami advisory ... Then there’s the looming threat of the Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake – the most powerful of its kind, with magnitudes ...

Japan aims to reduce the projected death toll from a potential Nankai Trough megaquake by 80 per cent and cut structural ...

Japan's meteorological agency has published a map showing which parts of the country could be struck by a tsunami in the event of a megaquake in the Nankai Trough. The color-coded map shows the ...

In the first “megaquake advisory” it has ever issued, the agency said that the risk of strong shaking and a tsunami are greater than usual on the Nankai Trough, a subduction zone with the ...

If a Nankai Trough earthquake occurs, those municipalities are expected to be hit by a tsunami higher than 3m or shaking of 6-lower intensity or greater on Japan’s shindo seismic scale ...

Tsunami advisories were issued ... emergency meeting to analyze whether the quake had affected the nearby Nankai Trough, the source of past devastating earthquakes. They later issued an assessment ...