If a magnitude 8 or greater earthquake hits along the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan, it and its tsunami could claim more than 300,000 lives, trigger an eruption of Mount Fuji and turn millions of people into refugees, prefectural and local governments ...
The disastrous earthquake expected to occur in the Nankai Trough off the Pacific coast could cause more than 130,000 deaths in Osaka alone, the prefectural government said Wednesday. If people do not act promptly to escape the tsunami spawned by the quake, the death ...
A Japan-led team of seismologists set off Friday on a mission to drill deep beneath the seabed in a search for the origin of earthquakes. The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu departed from Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, bound for the fracture in the Earth’s crust known ...
A temblor with magnitude of 8 in the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan could heavily damage high-rise buildings in Tokyo and Osaka, a national research institute recently said. While it has been predicted that a Nankai Trough quake could reach a magnitude ...
A disaster drill for the anticipated major earthquake in central to western Japan was held Saturday with about 4,200 people taking part at numerous locations. Self-Defense Forces planes and helicopters were used to simulate transporting injured people from airports in the region to cities ...
The Japanese and the United States forces plan to conduct a joint relief drill on Shikoku in October to prepare for the possibility of a massive earthquake, Japanese defense officials said. The drill will take place in Kochi Prefecture to prepare for the dreaded ...
The government calls for an electronic mapping system as part of measures to respond to the feared Nankai Trough quake, which threatens to spawn 30-meter tsunami that could wipe out populous areas of the Pacific.
Some 18 years after the Great Hanshin Earthquake mangled Kobe and just two years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami required U.S. help to save Tohoku, the land ministry is still making grand plans to counter the next natural disaster. Its next ...
If a massive quake were to occur along the Nankai Trough, it could violently sway high-rise buildings in cities as far from the epicenter as Tokyo and Osaka, new estimates show.
Osaka said Thursday a massive temblor could trigger tsunami that could flood an area of 9,394 hectares in the prefecture, three times more than earlier estimated by the central government. Tsunami 30 cm high could even reach busy downtown streets around Osaka Station in ...
Can Japan even begin to prepare for the effects of a future Nankai Trough quake? A Cabinet office final report has a sober warning.
Some 1,800 people in the Izu and Ogasawara island chains in the Pacific could be killed, mainly by tsunami, if the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan experiences a major temblor, the metro government says.
