Japan faces rising megaquake fears after over 1,000 tremors. Here’s what’s fact, what’s fiction, and how to stay prepared ...

Japan has approved a new disaster plan. This plan aims to reduce deaths and damage from a potential Nankai Trough megaquake.

TOKYO: Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, ...

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

The nation’s top earthquake expert has dismissed claims circulating online that the recent chain of intense seismic activity ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course ...

A Japan Meteorological Agency panel says no noticeable seismic activity has been observed in areas where a Nankai Trough ...

The Nankai Trough is a 700-kilometer long (435-mile) subduction zone, which refers to when tectonic plates slip beneath each other. Most of the world’s earthquakes and tsunamis are caused by ...

The Cabinet Office released on March 31 slightly lower death and disaster projections from an expected Nankai Trough megaquake than calculated a decade ago, but the numbers remain horrific and far ...