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

Japan will set a goal of reducing a March estimate of up to 298,000 deaths from a potential megaquake occurring in the Nankai ...

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 ...

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 ...

Such elevation changes give the water above a giant push, creating a tsunami. Each subduction zone quake generates multiple waves: a crest wave, above the uplifted seafloor, and a trough wave ...

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 ...

Only the period stays the same, the time between each crested peak or valley trough passing a fixed point. Even once the waves start coming ashore, tsunami can still be devastatingly unpredictable.

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

Such elevation changes give the water above a giant push, creating a tsunami. Each subduction zone quake generates multiple waves: a crest wave, above the uplifted seafloor, and a trough wave ...