A possible Nankai Trough megaquake and tsunami disaster could kill hundreds of thousands of people and cause a trillion-dollar damage to Japan. Sign up here. Here's a look at the risks of what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

potentially cause a tsunami and lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. “The possibility of a large-scale earthquake occurring in the area of the Nankai Trough is relatively higher than ...