Japan Tsunami Map Shows Where Biggest Waves Could Hit
Japan's meteorological agency has published a map showing which parts of the country could be struck by a tsunami in the ...
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Megaquake In Japan's Nankai Trough Could Trigger Nearly 100-Foot Tsunami At Epicenter, Authorities Warn
This advisory follows a recent 7.1-magnitude earthquake in the Hyuganada Sea, triggering concerns about a potential tsunami. The Nankai Trough, stretches 700 kms from Shizuoka to Miyazaki ...
670,000 expected to evacuate for Nankai Trough megaquake
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 Shimbun ...
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What you need to know about Japan's mega-quake advisory
And this could cause a massive tsunami like the one that hit northeastern Japan back in 2011. On Aug 8, a magnitude 7.1 quake in Kyushu led to the Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra Information ...
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A powerful earthquake hits off southern Japan; tsunami advisory issued
The tsunami advisory was lifted from most coastlines ... to analyze whether the quake had affected the nearby Nankai Trough, the source of past devastating earthquakes. They later issued an ...
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Megaquake advisory issued, tsunami advisories lifted
Megaquake advisory issued (19:15 JST) Nankai Trough quakes occur every 100 to 200 years along the plate boundary between Suruga Bay in Shizuoka Prefecture and the Hyuganada Sea in Kyushu. The ...
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Massive monitoring helps prepare for megaquakes
Within the next 30 years, the southwest coast of Japan is expected to be hit by a magnitude 8–9 earthquake and tsunami originating in the Nankai Trough, a seafloor depression where the ...