According to Japan's Earthquake Research Committee, there’s an 80 percent chance that a megaquake could occur in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years. That's slightly up from the 70 to 80 ...

As tremors shook the ground in parts of western Japan last Thursday, local and national government bodies leapt into action. Meteorologists gathered and issued a temporary tsunami advisory.

After a week of uneasiness following the Japan Meteorological Agency’s first-ever Nankai Trough advisory, which called for caution against a possible huge earthquake, the broad implications and ...

Nankai Trough quakes occur every 100 to 200 years along the plate boundary on Japan's Pacific coast. A member of the JMA's expert panel says research has confirmed that a major earthquake can ...

Like the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, this is a type of earthquake that is of concern in the Nankai Trough. The plate shifted in ...

experts say Japan is due for a mega-quake — the next big earthquake in Japan that could cause widespread destruction. Recently, the Nankai Trough has been in the news as a potential mega quake that ...

TOKYO: A Japanese government panel said Thursday ... It said that the likelihood of a new major earthquake along the Nankai Trough was higher than normal after a magnitude 7.1 jolt that injured ...

The program calls for using existing private-sector ships to transport patients from disaster-affected areas and provide ...

The Japanese Meteorological Agency has issued a megaquake advisory after Thursday's quake, as part of the Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra Information protocol. It has also lifted all tsunami ...

TOKYO: A powerful earthquake struck off Japan's southern coast on Thursday ... to analyse whether the quake had affected the nearby Nankai Trough, the source of past devastating earthquakes.

A year after a natural disaster, the resilient artisans of Japan’s Noto Peninsula are forging ahead—with great help from the ...