The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant upgrades to the plan to safeguard the public in the event of a major ...

TOKYO: Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, ...

Japan has approved a new disaster plan. This plan aims to reduce deaths and damage from a potential Nankai Trough megaquake.

The nation’s top earthquake expert has dismissed claims circulating online that the recent chain of intense seismic activity ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

By calculating the intervals between each major quake, the Japanese government has warned there is a 70% to 80% chance that Japan will be rocked by another Nankai Trough earthquake within 30 years ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

Japan has developed an undersea warning system that can detect earthquakes 20 seconds before they reach land, significantly ...

Throughout history, the Nankai Trough has repeatedly caused earthquakes about once every 100 to 150 years. The last series of them was observed about 80 years ago, and experts have been warning ...

Japan Meteorological Agency's Nankai Trough quake advisory panel said the chance of a bigger earthquake striking after a magnitude 7 tremor was once in a few hundred cases, relatively higher than ...

But even then, the probability of the Nankai Trough earthquake happening the next day is low – perhaps increasing from the typical risk of one in 1,000 to one in a few hundred. That’s still ...