A highest-level warning for a Nankai Trough megaquake would prompt a government evacuation advisory for 670,000 people, but less than half of the affected municipalities are prepared, an Asahi ...

The lifting of the Nankai Trough megaquake advisory came after a tense week, which raises fears even greater confusion could ensue in the event a higher-level “alert” becomes necessary. On Aug ...

The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.

The Japanese government has issued an urgent warning over the catastrophic damage which could be caused by an impending megaquake. Experts now believe there is an 80 per cent chance of a magnitude ...

Estimated tsunami height map of a Nankai Trough mega-quake It also says tsunamis at least 10 meters high could hit Tokyo and 12 other prefectures from the Kanto through Kyushu regions. Some areas ...

Megaquake advisory issued (19:15 JST) Nankai Trough quakes occur every 100 to 200 years along the plate boundary between Suruga Bay in Shizuoka Prefecture and the Hyuganada Sea in Kyushu. The ...

Up to 298,000 people in Japan could die in a megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough, a revised estimate by the government's earthquake task force showed Monday, with efforts to mitigate damage ...

Japan had issued its first ever advisory in August 2024 for a potential "megaquake" along the Nankai Trough, a 900-kilometre undersea fault stretching from Shizuoka to Kyushu . The megaquake rules ...

The figures have been updated from a previous estimate, made in 2014, for the potential consequences of a huge earthquake along the Nankai Trough ... of such a megaquake in the next 30 years ...

TOKYO -- Roughly 60% of Japanese localities in the area where the next megaquake is expected to hit lack one or more critical supplies that would serve the needs of evacuees, according to a Nikkei ...

Most seismologists believe the Friday jolt had no direct link to the Nankai Trough megaquake, citing distance. On social media platform X, spam posts taking advantage of fears over the megaquake ...