The most likely location for a megaquake in Japan is along the Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast, where the government panel said there was now more than 80 ...

The Great Nankai Earthquake' refers to a huge earthquake in the Nankai Trench, which occurs when the Philippine version below the Philippine Sea digs under the Eurasian version of the Japanese ...

Q: What is the Nankai Trough Earthquake? A: The Nankai Trough is an ocean-floor trench that runs along the Pacific coast from the Tokai to Kyushu regions. This area has a history of being struck ...

which lies in the westernmost part of the estimated hypocentral region of a long-anticipated megaquake along the Nankai Trough, an ocean-floor trench that runs along the Pacific coast from the ...

Japan's internal affairs ministry on Wednesday presented a new plan to send officials from some prefectures to help other areas hit hard by a possible massive earthquake in the Nankai Trough off ...

Japan Trench and the Nankai Trough have been occurring at intervals of a few decades to a century. These earthquakes occur around ocean trenches where the oceanic plate is forced underneath the ...

The consideration comes as a government panel estimates there is an approximately 80 percent chance that a megaquake with a magnitude 8 to 9 will occur in the Nankai Trough -- an ocean-floor ...