Japan braces for tsunami after 7.1 magnitude earthquake, citizens warned to stay clear of coastline. Epicenter near Nankai Trough raises concerns for potential "mega earthquake" in future.

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 ...

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 ...

The government's worst-case scenario has estimated that a Nankai Trough megaquake and subsequent tsunami disaster could kill 323,000 people, destroy 2.38 million buildings and cause 220 trillion ...

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 ...

The lifting of the Nankai Trough megaquake advisory came after ... of the risk they might not be able to flee in time before a tsunami generated by a subsequent giant quake arrives.

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 ...