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 government was urged to amend a special law enacted in 2004 to prepare the public for a megaquake in either the Japan Trench that is part of the Pacific Rim of Fire off northeastern Japan or ...

According to a recent estimate, if a magnitude-9 quake hits the Japan Trench in winter late at night, some 199,000 people would die. If it occurs in the Chishima Trench, it projected that 100,000 ...