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NANKAI TROUGH

JAPAN
Aug 18, 2013
Mobile phones, SNS data to the rescue in Nankai Trough scenario
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.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2013
Magnitude 9 Nankai Trough quake would violently rock Tokyo, Osaka high-rises
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2013
State lowballed Nankai tsunami impact: Osaka
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.
EDITORIALS
Jun 4, 2013
Nankai quake preparedness
Can Japan even begin to prepare for the effects of a future Nankai Trough quake? A Cabinet office final report has a sober warning.
JAPAN
May 15, 2013
Nankai Big One could kill 1,800 in isles: metro team
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.
EDITORIALS
Mar 25, 2013
Coping with a Nankai megaquake
It is estimated that economic damage from a magnitude-9 quake centered in the Pacific's Nankai Trough could amount to 40 percent of Japan's GDP.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2013
¥220 trillion hit seen from Nankai quake
The bill for a 9.0-magnitude temblor striking in the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan would be about ¥220 trillion — not including nuclear fallout damages.

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