A researcher estimates that about 270 tsunami-caused fires could occur across 22 prefectures in the event of a massive earthquake in the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan. “We should consider measures to forestall oil leaks, protect evacuation facilities and prevent fires from ...
Liquefaction will likely disrupt many of the petrochemical complexes on the Pacific coast if large quakes occur in the Nankai Trough or Tokyo, government researchers warn.
Japan hopes to reinforce railways in areas threatened by strong earthquakes by fiscal 2017, according to a draft disaster preparedness plan obtained by Kyodo News on Monday. Efforts to make railways more quake-resistant are part of a nationwide plan filled with numerical targets for ...
Japan approves a 10-year program aimed at reducing the more than 300,000 casualties projected under the Nankai Trough earthquake scenario by 80 percent.
Officials in Nagoya are distributing seismic and tsunami hazard maps based on the damage the city is projected to take from an earthquake in the Nankai Trough. The maps, which were distributed starting March 17, outline two scenarios. One is based on the largest ...
A magnitude-9.0 earthquake along the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan could kill as many as 6,700 people in Nagoya, 1.5 times the number previously estimated, the municipal government said Wednesday. Nagoya, with a population of 2.27 million, also projected that 15,000 people ...
Efforts to subsidize the reinforcement of large buildings against earthquakes are lacking in more than 60 percent of the major governments, a survey says.
The combined amount of debris from a projected Nankai Trough quake, as well as sediment washed ashore by the subsequent tsunami, could total as much as 349 million tons, some 11 times the amount caused by the March 2011 Tohoku disaster, the Environment Ministry ...
A quake as powerful as magnitude 9 feared to hit the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan could max out the Japanese seismic intensity scale to 7 in areas surrounding the port of Nagoya, the city warned Monday. The earthquake could measure upper ...
A powerful earthquake originating in the Nankai Trough off the Pacific coast could cut off tap water to roughly 8.32 million people in Osaka, or 94 percent of the prefecture's residents, Osaka Prefecture says.
Is there a level of fear above which the mind reflexively retreats from imagining the worst? The Great East Japan Earthquake was often described as being "beyond imagination," and the art and science of projecting future catastrophes has had to adjust accordingly.
The Defense Ministry has drawn up response plans for a possible huge Nankai Trough earthquake south of Japan, Jiji Press learned Friday. The plans call for using some 65 Self-Defense Forces vessels and about 300 aircraft for rescue and relief activities, since many areas ...
