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

Japan is on high alert as government officials warn of an imminent "Nankai Trough megaquake" that could kill nearly 300,000 ...

Japan has approved a comprehensive disaster preparedness strategy to mitigate the impact of a potential Nankai Trough ...

Wolfgang Löger, from Austria, decided to become a taxi driver in Tokyo when he was 50. After several years on the road, he’s ...

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

The probability of a magnitude-8 or -9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has risen to “around 80 percent,” according to the government’s Earthquake Research ...

A series of earthquakes near Japan’s remote Tokara Islands over the past two weeks, along with a major eruption from a ...

A manga novel has predicted that a mega-earthquake will hit Japan today, July 5. The 2021 reprint of 'The Future I Saw' by ...

The Japanese government has updated its earthquake preparedness plan due to increased risks of a megaquake in the Nankai ...

The Nankai Trough is a 700-kilometer long (435-mile) subduction zone, which refers to when tectonic plates slip beneath each other. Most of the world’s earthquakes and tsunamis are caused by ...